Mona Houghton

Mona Houghton’s new book is called Frottage & Even As We Speak (What Books Press). Frottage, included in this book, won 1st place in the Inconundrum Press Melville Novella contest and was a finalist in an Aimee Bender judged Lofti Novella Contest. 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. Mona Houghton teaches writing at California State University, Northridge.