TOM NOYES' newest book, "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 Stanford Libraries William Saroyan Award. Tom has earned degrees in writing from Ohio University, Wichita State University and Houghton College, and his stories have appeared in such journals as American Literary Review, Ascent, Colorado Review, Image, Mid-American Review, New Ohio Review, Pleiades, Sycamore Review, Terrain.org and Third Coast. He has been awarded grants from The Sustainability Arts Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Currently, he teaches in the BFA program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, where he also serves as a consulting editor for the literary magazine Lake Effect.