by Roxane Gay
Quarantine. The New Yorker, January 30.
Risk Management. Kenyon Review, vol. XXXIX, no. 4.
ORRINGER, JULIE
Neighbors. Paris Review, no. 221.
OTA, E. K.
Silk and Dust. Ploughshares, vol. 43, no.1.
PEARSON, JOANNA
Fox Foot. Mississippi Review, vol. 45, nos. 1 & 2.
PELISH, ALYSSA
The Pathetic Fallacy. New England Review, vol. 38, no. 4.
PENCE, CHARLOTTE, AND ADAM PRINCE
So Far. Sewanee Review, vol. CXXV, no. 3.
PEYNADO, BRENDA
The Man I Could Be. Hunger Mountain, no. 21.
The Whitest Girl. Ecotone, no. 23.
PIETRZYK, LESLIE
Happy Birthday in a Week. Southern Indiana Review, vol. 24, no. 1.
POWER, SUSAN
Backseat Rider. Water~Stone Review, vol. 20.
PRICE, ADAM O’FALLON
A Natural Man. Paris Review, 22.
PUCHNER, ERIC
Expression. Hopkins Review, vol. 10, no. 1.
QUADE, KIRSTIN VALDEZ
Christina the Astonishing (1150–1224). The New Yorker, July 31.
QUINN, MOLLY
A Danger to Ourselves. Iowa Review, vol. 47, no. 1.
RECONCO, ANDRÉS
La Garroba. Lunch Ticket.
REYN, IRINA
The Western Ones. Ploughshares, vol. 42, no. 4.
ROBERTSON, ELIZA
The Pirates of Penance. Masters Review, vol. V.
ROTH, MATTHUE
One Part Finger. Ploughshares, vol. 43, no. 1.
ROUPENIAN, KRISTEN
Cat Person. The New Yorker, December 11.
SARVIS, CALEB MICHAEL
An Unfaded Black. Oyster River Pages, August.
SCOTT, RION AMILCAR
The Nigger Knockers. New York Tyrant.
SHARMA, AKHIL
You Are Happy? The New Yorker, April 17.
SHEPARD, KAREN
Rescue. Tin House, vol. 19, no. 1.
SITTENFELD, CURTIS
Show Don’t Tell. The New Yorker, June 5 & 12.
SKINNER, JOSÉ
Peons. Isthmus, no. 6.
SWEARINGEN, RACHEL
A Habit of Seeing. Fifth Wednesday, no. 20.
TALLENT, ELIZABETH
Rawness. Threepenny Review, 150.
THAMMAVONGSA, SOUVANKHAM
How to Pronounce Knife. Granta, 141.
TSENG, JENNIFER
To Drink from the Lion’s Mouth. Tin House, vol. 18, no. 3.
UPTON, LEE
Portrait of the Artist’s Son. Idaho Review, no. 16.
VAPNYAR, LARA
Deaf and Blind. The New Yorker, April 24.
WALLACE, DANIEL
Sea Girls. Tin House, vol. 18, no. 4.
WALTER, JESS
Fran’s Friend Has Cancer. Ploughshares, vol. 43, no. 1.
WARD, LIZA
The Shrew Tree. ZYZZYVA, no. 110.
WASHINGTON, BRYAN
610 North, 610 West. Tin House, vol. 19, no. 1.
WIDEMAN, JOHN EDGAR
JB + FD. Harper’s, February.
Writing Teacher. The New Yorker, January 22.
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About the Editors
Roxane Gay, guest editor, is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Bad Feminist and Hunger, which received the NBCC Members’ Choice Award; the novel An Untamed State, a finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize; and the short story collections Difficult Women and Ayiti. She is also the editor of the New York Times best-selling Not That Bad. A contributing opinion writer to the New York Times, she has also written for Time, McSweeney’s, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Los Angeles Times, and The Nation, among others. She is the author of the World of Wakanda series for Marvel.
Heidi Pitlor, series editor, is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays and The Daylight Marriage.
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