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A southern by birth, EVE SHELNUTT received the B.A. Degree from the University of Cincinnati and the M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, under the auspicies of The Randall Jarrell Fellowship. Having taught for six years at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, she joined the faculty of The University of Pittsburgh where she now teaches in The Writing Program as an Associate Professor. Her first collection of stories, The Love Child, appeared in 1979 (Black Sparrow Press) and was awarded The Great Lakes Fiction Award. The Formal Voice, her second story collection, was published by Black Sparrow Press in 1982 and has been awarded the Winthrop College Press Award for 1982. Her stories and poems have appeared in numerous journals, including American Review, Mother Jones, Virginia Quarterly Review, Agni Review, Ploughshares, Ohio Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner and others.