Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of Black Tickets and Fast Lanes, two widely anthologized collections of stories, and Machine Dreams, a novel nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. ...view moreJayne Anne Phillips is the author of Black Tickets and Fast Lanes, two widely anthologized collections of stories, and Machine Dreams, a novel nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. She is a recipient of the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction.view less