Molly Gloss

Molly Gloss is the author of four novels and numerous short stories. Her most recent book, The Hearts of Horses, is the story of a young woman who finds herself breaking horses for several ranchers in Eastern Oregon in the winter of 1917. Set against the backdrop of World War I, The Hearts of Horses examines the closeness of community and how love can overcome even its toughest opponents.
 
Gloss earned numerous awards for her fiction, The Jump-Off Creek (set just east of Hood River), and her first book was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction. She is a winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Oregon Book Award. The Dazzle of Day was named a New York Times Notable Book and was awarded the PEN Center West Fiction Prize. Wild Life won the James Tiptree Jr. Award and was chosen as the 2002 selection for "If All Seattle Read the Same Book." In 1996 Molly was a recipient of a Whiting Writers Award.
 
Gloss is a fourth-generation Oregonian and lives in Portland, Oregon.

For more about Molly and her works, go to http://www.mollygloss.com