Tom Noyes’ collection Come by Here: A Novella and Stories won the 2013 Autumn House Prize in Fiction. He is the author of two other story collections, Spooky Action at a Distance and Other Stories and Behold Faith and Other Stories, which was shortlisted for the Stanford Libraries William Saroyan Award. Tom has earned degrees in writing from Ohio University, Wichita State University, and Houghton College, and he has been awarded grants from The Sustainability Arts Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Currently, he directs the BFA program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, where he also serves as a consulting editor for the literary journal Lake Effect.