McCallum-Smith’s story collection Slipping the Moorings was published in 2009, and her fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Southern Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, AGNI, Dublin Review of Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a NEA fellowship in fiction, and the 2014 Walter Sullivan Prize from The Sewanee Review. Recently she returned to live in her native Scotland. (updated 9/2015)