Millicent Dillon, First Place winner of Narrative’s 2018 Winter Story Contest, is considered the world’s leading expert on one of America’s most intriguing literary couples, Jane and Paul Bowles. A novelist herself, Dillon wrote the definitive biographies A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles and You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles, using her gifts for narrative art and emotion. She has won five O. Henry prizes for her short stories and a PEN/Faulkner nomination for the novel Harry Gold. Dillon earned her MA from San Francisco State University and later taught at Foothill College in Los Altos, California.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Disbelief, a short story, in Spring 2018
- Decoy Project, a memoir, in Spring 2015
- Evicted, a novel excerpt, in Fall 2014
- The Healer in the Motel, a short story, in Winter 2013