New Stories from the Midwest 2021

by Jason Lee Brown (Editor), Shanie Latham (Editor)

Overview

To bring more visibility to the flourishing crop of Midwestern writers who consistently produce work that is innovative, engaging, finely crafted, and strong in voice, New American Press releases a new volume of recently published work from the Midwest each year. "Midwestern" is a term both vague and diverse in meaning, and we will seize on these qualities as we gather the best work from the Midwest. We also want to explode the generally accepted notions of what the Midwest is and what Midwestern writing is, while honoring its rich and long-standing traditions.

New Stories from the Midwest 2021, guest edited by Michael Martone, showcases ten stories from past volumes along with ten stories that are new to the series by authors such as Charles Baxter, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Wendy Chen, Michael Czyzniejewski, Noley Reid, Amber Sparks, Maggie Su, Laura van den Berg, Alexander Weinstein, and Rachel Yoder.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781941561256
Publisher:	New American Press
Publication date:	02/15/2022
Series:	New Stories from the Midwest , #2021
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Jason Lee Brown is the editor-in-chief of River Styx literary magazine, director of the River Styx Reading Series, and co-series editor of New Stories from The Midwest. He also co-edited, with Shanie Latham, the poetry anthology The Book of Donuts. He is the author of three books, including the forthcoming story collection, Midwest Everyman. His fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review, Literary Review, North American Review, The Journal, Southern Humanities Review, Ecotone, and numerous other journals. He earned his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Shanie Latham is a proofreader and publication designer for River Styx, Boulevard, and Story magazines. She co-edits the New Storiesfrom The Midwest series with Jason Lee Brown, with whom she also co-edited a poetry anthology, The Book of Donuts.

Michael Martone has retired from teaching after forty years. He has authored or edited many books of fiction and nonfiction, among them The Complete Writings of Art Smith, The Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone; The Moon Over Wapakoneta: Fictions and Science Fictions from Indiana and Beyond; The Blue Guide to Indiana; Four for a Quarter; and Michael Martone. He lives in Tuscaloosa.