GERALD DUFF'S short stories and poems have appeared in "Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Sewanee Review, Georgia Review, Missouri Review, " and other magazines. In addition to a memoir and two collections of poetry, he has published seven novels and a collection of short stories, "Fire Ants," which was a finalist for the Jesse Jones Award for Fiction in 2008 from the Texas Institute of Letters. The title story won the Cohen Award from "Ploughshares "and was reprinted in "The Editors' Choice: New American Stories "and cited in "The Best American Short Stories."