Paula R. Hilton

Paula R. Hilton is a novelist who explores the ways that deeply flawed people can still be forces of good in the world. She earned her bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA from the University of New Orleans. Her fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion website, and NPR's This I Believe, as well as in a number of literary journals, including The Tulane Review, Kalliope, and Ellipsis. Hilton's debut novel, Little Miss Chaos, received the Kirkus star for books of exceptional merit. The novel was also a short-listed finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. She is currently working on Daphne and the Delirious Girls, her second novel. She lives in Fleming Island, Florida with her husband, son and daughter.