Brenden Willey, winner of the 2019 Narrative Prize, earned an MFA in fiction from the University of Oregon and received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in fiction from Stanford University. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and daughter.Photograph by Hailey Port.WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:Things That Don’t Keep a Lightning Bug Alive, a short story, in Winter 2019In the Water, a short story, in Winter 2016hittingrod, a short story, in Winter 2015