>National Magazine Awards

>Check out all the Finalists and Winners of the National Magazine Awards, announced yesterday. Big congratulations to Virginia Quarterly Review, which won two awards, one for General Excellence for Magazines with circulation under 100,000 (in VQR’s case, way under), and one for Fiction, for three stories in the Fall issue, including “In a Grove” by R.T. Smith, Editor of Shenandoah.

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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