by Robin Black
About
the
Author
ROBIN BLACK’S stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including One Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Bellevue Literary Review, The Southern Review, and the anthology The Best Creative Non-fiction. She has received Special Mention from the Pushcart Prizes four times and a work of hers was a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2008. The winner of numerous awards and a recipient of fellowships from the Leeway Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Sirenland Conference, Black is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She lives with her family in Philadelphia.
Copyright © 2010 by Robin Black
All rights reserved.
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These stories originally appeared, in some cases in slightly different versions, in the following publications:
“The Guide,” Indiana Review; “If I Loved You” (as “A Fence Between
Our Homes”), The Southern Review; “Immortalizing John Parker,”
Freight Stories; “Harriet Elliot,” One Story; “Gaining Ground,”
Alaska Quarterly Review; “Tableau Vivant,” The Georgia Review;
“Pine,” Colorado Review; “A Country Where You Once Lived,”
Hunger Mountain; “… Divorced, Beheaded, Survived,” Bellevue Literary
Review and The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review (BLR Press, 2007).
A portion of “The History of the World” appeared in The Double Dealer
as winner of the 2005 Pirate’s Alley Faulkner-Wisdom Writing Competition
in the Short Story Category and appeared in full in Colorado Review.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Black, Robin.
If I loved you, I would tell you this: stories / Robin Black.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-679-60368-9
I. Title.
PS3602.L32524214 2010
813′.6—dc22 2009034839
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