Glimmer Train Stories, #76 - Softcover

Ingrid Hill has published stories in Black Warrior Review, Image, Indiana Review, the Michigan Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, the Southern Review, Story, and New Stories from the South. Her first story collection was Dixie Church Interstate Blues. Her first novel, Ursula, Under was named a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. She has twelve children, including two sets of twins, and lives in Iowa City.

Jennifer Anne Moses is the author of Bagels and Grits and Food and Whine. Her stories have appeared in a number of literary magazines as well as in The Pushcart Prizes and New Stories from the South: The Year's Best. She lives with her husband and children in Montclair, New Jersey.

For the past fifteen years Horatio Potter, a former New York City schoolteacher, has operated a cattle ranch with his family at the base of the Crazy Mountains in SW Montana. He received an MFA from the University of Montana. His stories have appeared in Big Sky Journal and Roanoke Review.

Nam Le's novel The Boat won the 2008 Dylan Thomas Prize for the best work of an author under the age of thirty. His fiction has appeared in Zoetrope, One Story, Conjunctions, The Best American Non-Required Reading, Best New American Voices, Best Australian Stories, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Le is fiction editor of the Harvard Review.

Matthew Salesses s fiction has recently appeared in Hobart, Mid-American Review, Pleiades, Quick Fiction, and Front Porch, among others. He is the editor-in-chief of Redivider, the graduate journal of Emerson College.

Noa Jones writes fiction and creative nonfiction. She is a 2009 graduate of the MFA fiction program at Hunter College. She is the writer and editor of Art in Action: Nature, Creativity, and Our Collective Future. Her first book was Travellers & Magicians. She is from New York and Colorado and is currently working on a novel while traveling.

Pamela Sutton teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds an MS in Journalism from Northwestern University and an MA in Creative Writing from Boston University. Her poems have appeared in the Colorado Review, Prairie Schooner, Best American Poetry 2000, Threepenny Review, the American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Antioch Review, and Poetry East.

Judy Troy is the author of a story collection, Mourning Doves, and two novels, West of Venus and From the Black Hills. Her stories have appeared in the Kenyon Review, New Yorker, and other journals and magazines. She lives in Auburn, Alabama, and is Alumni Writer-in-Residence at Auburn University.

Randolph Thomas's stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, the Hudson Review, Southwest Review, and in the recent anthology Writes of Passage. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Witness, Louisiana Literature, Texas Review, and Don t Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review. He teaches at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

Carmiel Banasky grew up in Portland, Oregon and received her BA from the University of Arizona. She is currently completing her MFA at Hunter College, where she also teaches undergraduate creative writing.

Christine Sneed lives in Evanston, Illinois and teaches writing courses part-time for DePaul University and Loyola University. Her stories and poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from New England Review, Greensboro Review, Massachusetts Review, New Ohio Review, River Styx, Pleiades, and Other Voices. She also had a story included in Best American Short Stories 2008.

From 1958 to 1967, Charles McCarry was a CIA officer operating alone and under deep cover. His eleven novels, which include The Tears of Autumn, The Secret Lovers, The Better Angels, and, most recently, Christopher's Ghosts, are among the most acclaimed in the genre of espionage fiction.