The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970

Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.

Author: Lex Williford, Michael Martone
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 12/04/2007
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781416532279
ISBN10: 1416532277
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Anthologies (multiple authors)

About the Author
Lex Williford teaches in the bilingual writing program at the University of Texas, El Paso. He previously taught in the writing programs at Southern Illinois University and the University of Alabama. His collection of stories, Macauley's Thumb, was co-winner of the 1993 Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction. He lives with his wife in El Paso, Texas.

Michael Martone has taught at Iowa State University, Harvard University, and Syracuse University. He is currently teaching at the University of Alabama, where he has directed the MFA Program in Creative Writing. Double-wide: Collected Fiction is his eighth book of stories. Racing in Place, his third book of nonfiction, will be published in 2008. He has edited six other volumes of prose including the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction with Lex Williford. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.