Val Brelinski was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, where she was also a Jones Lecturer in fiction writing. She received an MFA from the University of Virginia, and her writing has been published in VQR and The Rumpus. Brelinski will read from and sign her debut novel The Girl Who Slept With God ($27.95 Viking), a critically acclaimed literary achievement about a family’s desperate need for truth, love, purity, and redemption.