Maureen Aitken’s short story collection, The Patron Saint of Lost Girls, won the Nilsen Prize, the Foreword Review INDIE Prize (General Fiction, Gold Winner) and was listed as one of the Kirkus Review’s Best Indie Books of 2019. The collection received a Kirkus Review Star, a Foreword Review Star, and was a finalist in the Minnesota Book Award. Her stories have been widely published in journals such as Prairie Schooner, and the international anthology The Bering Strait and Other Stories. She teaches at the University of Minnesota.