Marilyn Abildskov has an MFA from the University of Iowa. She has published short stories and essays in Black Warrior Review, Sonora Review, and Georgetown Review. She has had a story nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won the 1998 Rona Jaffe Writers Award, which goes to eight women of national promise. She has new essays and poetry forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Quarterly West. She has had residencies at Ragdale and Yaddo art colonies, and recognition from the 2000 Writers at Work competition fellowship.