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 Paulette Bates Alden is the author of two critically acclaimed books: Feeding the Eagles, a collection of short stories published by Graywolf Press; and Crossing the Moon, a memoir published by Penguin. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, Mississippi Review, The Antioch Review, and elsewhere. Her story about her father's death, "Swimming, Snow," was published by the Minnesota Center for Book Arts as their 1993 Winter Book. She has recently completed a novel entitled The Answer to Your Question, and is working on a craft book, Writing the Book-length Memoir. Paulette was born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1969. She was a Stegner Fellow (1969-70) at Stanford University, where she received her M.A. in Creative Writing and where she taught for three years as a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing. For many years she taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in memoir and fiction writing as an Edelstein-Keller Writer-in-Residence at the University of Minnesota, receiving a University College Distinguished Teaching Award in 1991. She has also taught creative writing at Carleton College as a Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor and at St. Olaf College. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Bush Foundation Fellowship, a Loft-McKnight Award, and several Minnesota State Arts Board grants. She often teaches workshops for the Split Rock Arts Program and the Key West Literary Seminar. For the past nine years she has worked with many individual writers on their novels, short stories and memoirs. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband, Jeff. 
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