Dantiel W. Moniz is the recipient of the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, the Cecelia Joyce Johnson Emerging Writer Award by the Key West Literary Seminars, and a Tin House Scholarship. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in theParis Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, American Short Fiction, Yale Review, One Story, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and elsewhere. Milk Blood Heat is her first book. She lives in Northeast Florida.