Jaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of the novel, Shark Girls, from Livingston Press in November, 2009.  She is also the author of a linked stories collection, Dream Lives of Butterflies, which won the gold medal in the 2008 Independent Publisher Awards; a novel in stories, Climbing the God Tree, winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize; and the story collection Sex, Salvation, and the Automobile, winner of the Zephyr Publishing Prize.  In Shark Girls, two women’s lives are transformed by a shark attack that amputates a child’s leg. It is alternately narrated by “Scat,” the older sister of the victim, now a reformed drunk and a “disaster photographer,” and “Gracie,” a casualty of a disfiguring accident, who becomes obsessed with “Shark Girl,” as Scat’s younger sister is known. In the media and popular belief, “Shark Girl” is rumored to have supernatural powers.

Jaimee teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University.