Glenn Taylor’s The Songs of Betty Baach has been chosen as the winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction. His most recent novel is A Hanging at Cinder Bottom (Tin House, 2015), and his first book, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart (Ecco, 2009) was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. Taylor’s work has appeared in such venues as the Oxford American, The Guardian, Gulf Coast, and Huizache. Born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia, he now resides in Morgantown, where he teaches in the MFA Program at West Virginia University.