Authors like Heidi Pitlor

Pushcart Prize winner and Best American Short Stories author Mark Wisniewski's third novel, Watch Me Go (Penguin Putnam, January 22, 2015), receive

Allegra Goodman is an American author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven.

Danielle Evans is an American fiction writer. She is a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Iowa. In 2011, she was honored by the

Victoria Lancelotta is an editor for the Georgetown Review. Lancelotta has written two books. Her fiction has also appeared in Glimmer Train, The

Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Nat

Caroline Henderson (1877–1966) was an American schoolteacher, farmer and author during the Dust Bowl. Born Caroline Boa in Oklahoma and raised in I

Linda Anne Chapman (born 15 January 1969 in Liverpool) is a British writer, principally of series for younger children. She is particularly known f

Karl Taro Greenfeld (born 1964 in Kobe, Japan) is a journalist, novelist and television writer known primarily for his articles on life in modern

The Best American Short Stories 2011, a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Geraldine

The Best American Short Stories 2009, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Alice Sebo

Carla Namwali Serpell (born 1980) is a Zambian writer who teaches in the United States. In April 2014 she was named on the Hay Festival's Africa39

Christine Sneed is an American novelist and short story writer, a graduate fiction professor at Northwestern University and for Regis University's

Alice Fulton (born 1952) is an American author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Fulton is the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English Emerita at Corn

Richard Russo (July 15, 1949) is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher.

Russo was born in Johnstown, New York,

Thomas Coraghessan Boyle, also known as T. C. Boyle and T. Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1948), is an American novelist and short story write

Karen Russell (born July 10, 1981) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, Swamplandia!, was a finalist for the 2012 Puli