An anthology of new short fiction by award-winning and emerging authors, this intimate collection celebrates writing and honors the writer. The editors-two sisters from Oregon-choose stories that are beautifully written, readable, and emotionally affecting. Each collection is also visually satisfying with handsome cover art and story illustrations, and unusual author profiles.
KAREN E. OUTEN, whose story Beneath the Earth of Her won our 1999 Fiction Open Award ($2,000), received a 1998 Few Fellowship in the Arts for her fiction. Her stories have appeared in the Philadelphia Enquirer Magazine, the North American Review, conditions, and Essence magazine. She is writing a novel.
WILLIAM J. CYR is a theme-park Show Writer for Walt Disney Imagineering. In years gone by he has worked as a concession supervisor, a pipe fitter apprentice, an Icee Bear, a litigation support manager, a pickle taster, a maitre d, and a situation-comedy writer, and is currently working on his first novel.
SIOBHAN DOWD of International PEN's Writers-in-Prison Committee in London writes this article regularly, alerting readers to the plight of writers around the world.
ANDREW SEAN GREERs short-story collection, How It Was for Me, was published by Picador USA in April 2000. His work has appeared in such periodicals as Esquire, the Paris Review, Story, and Ploughshares, for which he won the Cohen Short Story Award in 1997. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and an MFA from the writing program at the University of Montana. He lives in San Francisco, where he is at work on a novel.
RON NYREN lives in Oakland, California. He received his MFA from the University of Michigan, where The Salute to the Sun was granted a prize in the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Contest. His stories have appeared in the Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, Paris Review, and other journals. He has also written the book and lyrics for Mina & Colossus, a musical based on the life of poet Mina Loy. He is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
JEFF BECKER, just 22, grew up in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. Hes recently graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where, he says, he developed an affinity for independent studies, cognac, and garlic.
WORMSERs fiction has appeared in Antietam Review, the Cotton Quarterly, Gutter Poodles, and Welter, among other venues. She is a 1995 recipient of a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts from the Jenny McKean Moore Fund. Still seeking a publisher for her first novel, Borrowed Light, wormser is hard at work on a second book.
RICHARD BAUSCH was born in Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1945. His stories have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Glimmer Train Stories, Harpers, the New Yorker, and The Best American Short Stories. Author of several novels and story collections, Bausch is Heritage Professor of Writing in the graduate program at George Mason University.
JOHN STINSON grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, where he is currently a graduate student and Teaching Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. His play Median was performed at Actors Theatre of Louisville and is published by Samuel French.
