Amanda C. Gable’s short stories have appeared in The North American Review, The Crescent Review, Quarry West, Sinister Wisdom, Hurricane Alice, North Dakota Quarterly, Art Times, Kalliope, Other Voices, and elsewhere. She has been awarded residency fellowships by Yaddo, the Hambidge Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Nominated twice for a Pushcart, she has been awarded grants for her fiction by the Georgia Council for the Arts, the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs, and the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She received her interdisciplinary Ph.D. in American literature and feminist studies from Emory University and has taught at Denison University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is at work on a second novel and a non-fiction book about independent bookstores. Currently, she is an MFA candidate in creative writing at Georgia State University and recipient of the Paul Bowles Graduate Fellowship in Fiction Writing. A native of Marietta, she lives in Decatur, Georgia. The Confederate General Rides North is her first novel.