Virginia Pye is the author of Shelf Life of Happiness, winner of the 2019 IPPY Gold Medal for Short Fiction. Her debut novel, River of Dust, was an Indie Next Pick and a 2013 Finalist for the Virginia Literary Award. Her second novel, Dreams of the Red Phoenix was named a Best Book of 2015 by the Richmond-Times Dispatch. Virginia has taught writing at New York University and the University of Pennsylvania, in high schools and most recently at Grub Street in Boston. To learn more, please visit her at: www.virginiapye.com