Minrose Gwin, a finalist in Narrative’s 2020 Fall Story Contest, is the author of the novels The Accidentals, awarded the Mississippi Institute for Arts and Letters Fiction Award for 2020; Promise; and The Queen of Palmyra. She has also published a memoir, Wishing for Snow, and the critical work Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement. A native of Tupelo, Mississippi, she has taught at universities around the country, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives in Austin, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico.