"Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction." --The Atlantic Monthly
Daphne Palasi Andreades Brown Girls"
David Means Two Nurses, Smoking"
Sindya Bhanoo Malliga Homes"
Crystal Wilkinson Endangered Species: Case 47401"
Alice Jolly From Far Around They Saw Us Burn"
David Rabe Things We Worried About When I Was Ten"
Karina Sainz Borgo, translated by Elizabeth Bryer Scissors"
Jamel Brinkley Witness"
Tessa Hadley The Other One"
Adachioma Ezeano Becoming the Baby Girl"
Anthony Doerr The Master s Castle"
Tiphanie Yanique The Living Sea"
Joan Silber Freedom from Want"
Jowhor Ile Fisherman s Stew"
Emma Cline White Noise"
Asali Solomon Delandria"
Ben Hinshaw Antediluvian"
Caroline Albertine Minor, Translated by Caroline Waight Grief s Garden"
Jianan Qian To the Dogs"
Sally Rooney Color and Light"
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, and Zoetrope. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award); Half of a Yellow Sun (recipient of the Women's Prize for Fiction "Winner of Winners" award), Americanah (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck, and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, both national bestsellers. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
JENNY MINTON QUIGLEY is the author of a memoir, The Early Birds, and editor of the anthology Lolita in the Afterlife. She lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with her husband, sons, and dogs.