Product Description

Emotionally engaging literary short stories.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #675227 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 220 pages

About the Author
Paul Yoon's work has appeared or is forthcoming in various publications including One Story, Post Road, Small Spiral Notebook, and The Best American Short Stories 2006.
Myla Goldberg is the author of Wickett s Remedy and Bee Season, which was named a New York Times Notable Book in 2000 and has been made into a film. She also wrote Time s Magpie, a book of essays about Prague. Her short stories have appeared in Harper's, McSweeney's, and failbetter.
A PEN/New England Discovery, Louise Farmer Smith has placed stories in Virginia Quarterly Review and other literary magazines including Bellevue Literary Review, which published Return to Lincoln, a 2004 Pushcart nominee. She won Antietam Review and Potomac Review Fiction Prizes.
Louis Gallo was born and raised in pre-Katrina New Orleans (from which his entire family is now still evacuated). He teaches at Radford University. His poems and stories have appeared in many literary publications.
Brendan Mathews's stories have appeared in the Southern Review, TriQuarterly, and the Southwest Review. He earned his MFA from the University of Virginia and was a Stanley Elkin Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference.
Thomas E. Kennedy's recent books include the four novels of The Copenhagen Quartet; two essay collections, The Literary Traveler and Realism & Other Illusions; and the story collection, Cast Upon the Day (2007). Kennedy s stories appear regularly and have won Pushcart, O. Henry, and other prizes. An American citizen, he lives in Copenhagen, teaches in Fairleigh Dickinson University s MFA Program, and serves as Advisory Editor of the Literary Review and International Editor of StoryQuarterly.
Nita Krevans has been writing fiction since second grade, when she submitted a novel (nine pages, including illustrations) to Dutton. She teaches Greek and Latin at the University of Minnesota and is a member of the Loft Literary Center.
Tristan Davies was a 2004 05 George and Eliza Howard Foundation Fellow in Fiction. His forthcoming collection of stories is entitled Forecast (Rager Media). He teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins.
Greg Miller received his MFA from Indiana University, and has been published in the Greensboro Review, the Nebraska Review, and Sonora Review.
Patricia Foster received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and is an associate professor in the MFA program in nonfiction at the University of Iowa. She s the author of All the Lost Girls (memoir), Just Beneath My Skin (essays), and the editor of Minding the Body and Sister to Sister. Her stories and essays have been widely published.
Perri Klass is a pediatrician at Dorchester House Health Center and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center. A writer before she was a doctor, her first book was the novel Recombinations. Nonfiction titles include A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student, Baby Doctor, and Quirky Kids. Her most recent novel is The Mystery of Breathing. Her newest book is Every Mother Is a Daughter: The Neverending Quest for Success, Inner Peace, and a Really Clean Kitchen, which she coauthored with her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass.
Anthony Farrington is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and a Fulbright Scholar (Thailand). He teaches creative writing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His most recent work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New American Voices, and appears or is forthcoming in Peculiar Pilgrims: Stories From the Left Hand of God (Hourglass Books), Georgia Review, Salt Hill, and others. He was the Margaret Bridgman Scholar in Fiction at Bread Loaf in 2006, and he received a 2007 fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.