Glimmer Train Stories No.42 (Spring 2002)

Gorgeous short stories by established and emerging fiction writers. This issue includes the winners of Glimmer Train's 2001 Fiction Open and Very Short Fiction Award.

MONICA WOOD’s most recent novel is My Only Story. Ernie’s Ark, due out this spring, is a book of linked stories whose title story won a Pushcart Prize after appearing in Glimmer Train. “That One Autumn” is part of the collection. Two other books will appear this spring: The Pocket Muse: Ideas and Inspirations for Writers, and a paperback edition of her first novel, Secret Language.

KENT HARUF’s work includes The Tie that Binds, Where You Once Belonged, and Plainsong.

H. G. CARROLL lives and teaches in Ithaca, New York, where he is an MFA/PhD candidate in the department of English at Cornell University. He is currently completing his first novel.

A former traveling salesman but now mostly retired, J. M. FERGUSON, JR. lives in Tigard, Oregon, with his wife Holly, a former astrogeologist, and their good friend Dilsey, mostly beagle. The Summerfield Stories was a first collection from TCU Press in 1985, and a second collection has been looking for a publisher.

LOIS TAYLOR was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She completed her master’s degree in literature at the University of Washington, and has taught, worked in a city jail as a “personal recognizance” interviewer, served as a probation counselor, and taken ads over the phone for a newspaper classified-advertising department. She has published a chapbook of poems, Learning to Swim, and had poems and stories appear in the Nation, the New York Quarterly, Mid-American Review, the Yale Review, Northwest Review, American Short Fiction, and others. She also won an Associated Writing Program award, and a national award for a short story. She has two as yet unpublished novels seeking publication, Trouble Breathing, and About Time.

AMALIA MELIS lives in Athens, Greece. She still misses New York when she’s in Greece and misses Greece when she’s in New York. She’s finally realized there is no cure for this condition, so she might as well write about it. She works as a journalist for magazines and newspapers. She worked with Peter Gabriel when he filmed his concert in Athens for “Point of View,” and chases down drug traffickers, artists, and anyone else who strikes her fancy for interviews. She also listens, as often as she can, to squeaky violins playing the balo on the island of Andros. She has an MA from the New School for Social Research in New York.

ROBERT CHIBKA’s first car, a nameless 1973 Dodge Dart, died in late middle age of ferroporosis as a result of elemental exposure. His first novel, a 1990 Norton called A Slight Lapse, succumbed, much younger, to underexposure and thickening of the prose. Chibka, whose “Thrift” appeared in Glimmer Train 31, lives in Boston.

BRIAN SLATTERY was raised in Upstate New York and now lives in New York City. He is twenty-six years old; this is his first published story.

BRAD BARKLEY is the author of a short-story collection entitled Circle View, and a novel, Money, Love, published by Norton in July of 2000. His stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, the Oxford American, the Southern Review, the Georgia Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, which awarded him the Balch Prize for best fiction. He has won writing fellowships from the Maryland State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.