Holly Goddard Jonesis the author of Girl Trouble (Harper Perennial), a collection of short stories. Her work has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories and New Stories from the South, as well as various literary journals, and she was the winner of a 2007 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. A former Murray State professor and a native of Russellville, KY, Holly now teaches in the MFA program at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.