Jayne Anne Phillips

Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of four acclaimed works of fiction, the novels "Shelter" and "Machine Dreams" and the short story collections "Fast Lanes" and "Black Tickets." She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships and a 1997 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her new novel, "MotherCare," will be published in 2000 by Knopf.