What Books Press, the imprint of Los Angeles’ Glass Table Collective, released Mona Houghton debut book of fiction, Frottage & Even As We Speak—Two Novellas in the Spring of 2012. She has had stories published in Carolina Quarterly, Crosscurrents, Bluff City, West Branch, Oracle, and Livingston Press’ Tartts 2. Her short story Sex was performed as part of the New Short Fiction Series (Sally Shore) at the Beverly Hills Library. She has an essay, What I Learned from a Bricoleur, in Everyday Urbanism, edited by Margaret Crawford and John Kaliski. Houghton won the John Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction for her story A Brother, Some Sex, and an Optic Nerve, which appeared in the Summer Issue of Harpur Palate. Most recently her story On the Other Side of the San Gabriel Mountains appeared in the Spring 2011 issue of Corridors. Frottage won 1st place in the Inconundrum Press “Melville Novella” contest and was a finalist in an Aimee Bender judged Lofti Novella Contest. Frottage & Even As We Speak—Two Novellas, has won the 2012 Gold Award (Book of the Year in Literary Fiction) from ForeWord Reviews. Mona Houghton teaches writing at California State University Northridge.