Joyce Carol Oates, a founding member of Conjunctions’ newly formed board of directors, has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys (Plume), Blonde, and The New York Times bestseller The Falls (both Ecco). She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award, the Jerusalem Prize for Lifetime Achievement, the Prix Femina, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story, and the Cino Del Duca World Prize, among many other honors.