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- Title
- American Fiction
- Publisher
- New Rivers Pr
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- very_good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0898232643
- ISBN 13
- 9780898232646
"Particularly fine scene-making, evocative American cultural and cinematic talent in fiction. . . . More than a third of the stories are written by immigrants or children of recent immigrants, which reflects what America isnot only itself, but also the world with its currents and peregrinations."Josip Novakovich, April Fools Day
American Fiction is an anthology of quintessential American stories and poignant multicultural tales, brilliantly rendered by a diverse array of talented writers, exhibiting the vitality and intelligence of the short story formpowerful stories told in compelling voices by some of our brightest new literary stars.
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About the Author
Kristen J. Tsetsi is an award-winning fiction writer who has taught creative writing, screenwriting, and playwriting at the Trollwood Performing Arts School in Fargo, North Dakota. She received her MFA from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 2003, and since then has been a college English instructor, a reporter, and an editor. For fun, she films episodes for a comic-relief YouTube series created for and by writers, called Inside the Writers Studio.
Bayard Godsave is an assistant professor of English at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma. His fiction has appeared inCream City Review, Confrontation, Another Chicago Magazine, Bryant Literary Review, and Evansville Review.
Bruce Pratts novel, The Serpents of Blissfull, was published by Mountain State Press, and his poetry collection,Boreal, was published by Antrim House Books. His short fiction, poetry, and drama have appeared in dozens of journals in the United States, Canada and Europe, and have won several awards. He teaches creative writing at the University of Southern Maine and received his MFA from its Stonecoast program.
Judge
Josip Novakovich moved from Croatia to the U.S. at the age of twenty. He has published a novel,April Fool's Day, which has since been published in ten languages, three story collections (Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust,Yolk, and Salvation and Other Disasters), and three collections of narrative essays. His work was anthologized in Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize collection, and O. Henry Prize Stories. Novakovich earned the Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Ingram Merrill Award, and an American Book Award, and he has been a writing fellow of the New York Public Library. He teaches creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal.
Anthology Authors
Chris Belden is the author of the novel Carry-on, published by Rain Mountain Press in 2012. His stories have been published inSkidrow Penthouse, VENU, and other places, and he is co-author of the feature filmAmnesia, starring Ally Sheedy. He teaches writing at Fairfield University and at a high-security men's prison. In 2011, he received an MFA from Fairfield University.
Sean Conaway writes and teaches in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where he lives with his wife, two daughters, and a smelly dog. He is currently pawning off his just-completed novel to anyone brave enough to read it.
Stephanie Dickinsons poetry and fiction have appeared in Cream City Review,Inkwell, and other places. She is an associate editor at Mudfish, and she is publisher and editor ofSkidrow Penthouse. Her poetry collection, Corn Goddess, and two short story collections,Road of Five Churches and Straight Up and No Sky There, were published by Rain Mountain Press. She lives in New York.
Theresa Duve Morales grew up in Des Moines and now lives in Woodland, California, with her husband and two daughters. She teaches middle school art and is working on a short story collection. This is her first publication.
Chidelia Edochies fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review, and other places, and she is currently working on a novel. She was a top-25 honoree for Glimmer Trains Short Story Award for New Writers, and received a fiction scholarship from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. She lived, painted, and wrote in the Chinese city of Guangzhou for years.
Peter W. Fong is a freelance editor and a flyfishing guide living in Aruba. His stories have appeared in theNew York Times Sophisticated Traveler, in Hemingways Meadow, and other places. He won the 25th Anniversary Fiction Prize from Soundings East and sec
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