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Lex Williford, a Texas native, holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas. He is the 1994 Shane Stevens Fellow in Fiction at Bread Loaf Writers¹ Conference and a recipient of a 1993 National Endowment of the Arts fellowship and was also co-winner of the 1993 Iowa School of Letters Award for short Fiction for his book, Macauley¹s Thumb. His stories have appeared in many journals. He has received fellowships from the Blue Mountain Center, the Djerassi Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, the Virginia Center for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, Villa Montalvo, and Yaddo. He is the co-editor of The Scribner Anthology Of Contemporary Short Fiction, and teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Texas at El Paso.