Heath Dollar is the author of Waylon County: Texas Stories and Old Country Fiddle: Stories, which won the Texas Institute of Letters’ Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction. Dollar has also won the Texas Observer Short Story Contest and the Gary Wilson Short Fiction Award, been named a finalist for the TIL’s Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story, and twice been recognized as a semifinalist for the American Short(er) Fiction Prize. Dollar’s work, which has appeared in numerous literary journals, is also included in A Fire to Light Our Tongues: Texas Writers on Spirituality. He lives in Fort Worth.