Ploughshares Fall 2013 Guest-Edited by Peter Ho Davies

by Peter Ho Davies (Editor), Stuart Dybek, Carolyn Ferrell, Michael Knight, Elise Levine

Overview

The Fall 2013 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Peter Ho Davies. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.

Award-winning novelist and short-story writer Peter Ho Davies (The Welsh Girl, Equal Love) compiles this fiction issue of Ploughshares. The issue features a wide diversity of styles—from Jo Lloyd's story of being young and broke in London, to V.V. Ganeshananthan's description of the death of a Sri Lankan terrorist, to Carolyn Ferrell's footnoted satire about members of an African-American community turning into zombies, each piece covers original ground and uses its own narrative strategies. "This is the thrill I found in each of these stories," Davies writes in his Introduction, "the sense that they spoke to me alone."

The issue also features Elise Levine's essay on deep-sea diving, and Robert Anthony Siegel's appreciation of the Japanese writer Kawabata Yasunari.

INTRODUCTION
Peter Ho Davies

EDITOR PROFILE
Douglas Trevor

FICTION

"Tell Me My Name," by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
"Three Summers," by Nick Dybek
"Misterioso," by Stuart Dybek
"Before They Were Flesh-Eating Zombies Trying to Take Over the World," by Carolyn Ferrell
"K Becomes K," by V.V. Ganeshananthan
"Planet of Fear," by Travis Holland
"Jubilee," by Michael Knight
"The Ground the Deck," by Jo Lloyd
"Safekeeping," by Megan Anderegg Malone
"Arlene in Five," by Jerry McGahan
"Pretty," by Nancy Welch

MISC

"Lost One In," a Plan B essay by Elise Levine
"The Breeze in the Ink Painting," a Look2 essay on Kawabata Yasunari by Robert Anthony Siegel

POSTSCRIPTS

Emerging Writer's Contest Winners

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148361022
Publisher:	Ploughshares
Publication date:	08/13/2013
Series:	Ploughshares , #3923
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Peter Ho Davies is the author of the novel The Welsh Girl (2007) and the story collections The Ugliest House in the World (1997) and Equal Love (2000). His work has appeared in Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The Guardian, Independent, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune, among others.

His short fiction has been widely anthologized, including selections for Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards 1998 and Best American Short Stories 1995, 96 and 2001. In 2003 Granta magazine named him among its twenty "Best of Young British Novelists." The Welsh Girl was ‘long-listed’ for the Man Booker Prize 2007, and short-listed for The Galaxy British Book Awards ‘Richard and Judy’ Best Read in 2008.

Davies is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is a 2008 recipient of the PEN/Malamud award.

Born in Britain in 1966 to Welsh and Chinese parents, Davies now makes his home in the US. He has taught at the University of Oregon and Emory University and is now on the faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.