Accolades for Alaska Quarterly Review authors

Alaska Quarterly Review (AQR) author Melinda Moustakis will be recognized by the National Book Foundation as one of the "5 Under 35" award winners for 2011. Her first book, "Bear Down Bear North: Alaska Stories," already has won one of two 2010 Flannery O'Connor Awards for Short Fiction. That work is the same one that garnered the National Book Foundation honor. It contains two stories first published in AQR, "Us Kids" and "Mr. Fur Face Needs a Girlfriend." Her stories in AQR were nominated for a Pushcart Prize. This is the fifth year of the "5 Under 35" awards for the National Book Foundation. For more information, visit nationalbook.org/5under35.

Also, AQR author Edith Perlman's collection "Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories" containing four stories originally published in AQR is a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award in fiction. "The Non-Combatant," "To Reach This Season (Day of Awe)," "The Story" and "Home Schooling" appeared in AQR. A glowing review in The New York Times (January 14, 2011) singled out "Home Schooling" as one of collection's "most luminous" stories.