Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime from Tin House
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ALISSA NUTTING is author of the short story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, selected by Ben Marcus for the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. A Cobain Fellow in fiction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, she is fiction editor of the literary magazine Witness and managing editor of Fairy Tale Review. Her work has been published in literary journals such as BOMB, Fence, Mid-American Review, and others, as well as in multiple magazines relating to history, art, and culture. Say hello at http://alissanutting.com.
GINA OCHSNER is the author of two collections of short stories, People I Wanted to Be and The Necessary Grace to Fall, both of which won the Oregon Book Award, and a novel, The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Glimmer Train, Tin House, and numerous other publications. She is a recipient of the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Ruth Hindman Foundation Prize, Guggenheim and NEA grants, and the Raymond Carver Prize. She lives in Keizer, Oregon.
STACEY RICHTER is the author of two short story collections: My Date with Satan and Twin Study.
KAREN RUSSELL, a native of Miami, has been featured in the New Yorker’s debut fiction issue and on the New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 list and was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. In 2009, she received the 5 Under 35 award from the National Book Foundation. A former fellow at the New York Public Library Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, she has taught creative writing at Columbia University and Williams College and is currently writer-in-residence at Bard College. She is the author of the collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and the novel Swamplandia!, both published by Knopf.
JULIA SLAVIN is the author of The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club and Other Stories and the novel Carnivore Diet.
JOY WILLIAMS is the author of four novels—the most recent, The Quick and the Dead, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—and two collections of stories, as well as a book of essays, Ill Nature, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
GINA ZUCKER has published short stories, essays, and articles in a variety of magazines, journals, and anthologies, including Elle, GQ, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, Salt Hill, Opium, and Tin House. She teaches creative writing at Pratt Institute and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
About the Editor
ROB SPILLMAN is the editor of Tin House magazine. He has written for publications such as Salon, Bookforum, the Baltimore Sun, British GQ, Details, Nerve, the New York Times Book Review, Premiere, Rolling Stone, Spin, Sports Illustrated, SPY, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Worth, among others.
Copyright Notes
“Americca,” copyright © 2009 by Aimee Bender. First published in Tin House no. 40.
“Whitework,” copyright © 2007 by Kate Bernheimer. First published in Tin House no. 33.
“Abroad,” copyright © 2007 by Judy Budnitz. First published in Tin House no. 33.
“The Young Wife’s Tale,” copyright © 2007 by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum. First published in Tin House no. 33.
“The Entire Predicament,” copyright © 2007 by Lucy Corin. From the story collection The Entire Predicament. Reprinted with permission of the author.
“Five Fictions from the Middle of the Night,” copyright © 2009 by Lydia Davis. Reprinted with permission of the Denise Shannon Literary Agency, Inc. All rights reserved. First published in Tin House no. 40.
“The Dickmare,” copyright © 2007 by Rikki Ducornet. First published in Tin House no. 33.
“The Wilds,” copyright © 2007 by Julia Elliott. First published in Tin House no. 33.
“Beast,” copyright © 2007 by Samantha Hunt. First published in Tin House no. 33.
“Oranges,” copyright © 2007 by Miranda July. First published in Tin House no. 33.
“Light,” copyright © 2007 by Kelly Link. First published in Tin House no. 33.
“Snow White, Rose Red,” copyright © 2010 by Lydia Millet. First published in Tin House no. 44.
“Hot, Fast, and Sad,” copyright © 2007 by Alissa Nutting. First published in Tin House no. 33.
“Song of the Selkie,” copyright © 2006 by Gina Ochsner. Reprinted with permission of Barer Literary. First published in Tin House no. 29.
“The Doll Awakens,” copyright © 2007 by Stacey Richter. First published in Tin House no. 33.
“The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach,” copyright © 2009 by Karen Russell. Reprinted with permission of the Denise Shannon Literary Agency, Inc. All rights reserved. First published in Tin House no. 41.
“Drive-Through House,” copyright © 2007 by Julia Slavin. First published in Tin House no. 33.
“Big People,” copyright © 2003 by Gina Zucker. First published in Tin House no. 17.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fantastic women : 18 tales of the surreal and the sublime from Tin house / edited by Rob Spillman. -- 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-935-63911-4
1. Fantasy fiction, American. 2. American fiction--Women authors. I. Spillman, Rob. II. Tin house.
PS648.F3F353 2011
813’.087660806--dc22
2011009695
First U.S. edition 2011
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