Patricia Ann McNair’s short story collection, The Temple of Air, won the Chicago Writers Association’s Book of the Year, Southern Illinois University’s Devil’s Kitchen Readers Award, and Society of Midland Authors Finalist Award. Her short story, “My Mother’s Daughter” won first prize in SolLit’s fiction awards in 2014. McNair’s work has appeared in American Fiction: Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, Prime Number, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, and other publications. She teaches in the Department of Creative Writing, Columbia College Chicago.
