Laurie Lynn Drummond’s collection of linked stories, Anything You Say Can and Will be Used Against You (HarperCollins 2004), received starred reviews from Kirkus and Library Journal; it was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and won the Best Book Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and the Violet Crown Award from the Writers’ League of Texas.  One of her stories, “Something About a Scar,” won the 2005 Edgar Award for Best Short Story.  Her essays, several of which have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and cited in Best American Essays, have been published in Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Brevity, and River Teeth.  A recipient of a 2008 Oregon Literary Fellowship in Literary Nonfiction, Drummond is working on a memoir, Losing My Gun, and a novel, Memories of the Living, Lives of the Dead.   A former police officer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she now teaches fiction and memoir in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon, where she also directs the Kidd Tutorial Program.