ERIN FALLON is a graduate student in English at the University of New Orleans. She is Assistant Coordinator of the International Conference on the Short Story in English, Recording Secretary for the Society for the Study of the Short Story, and Assistant Editor of Short Story.R.C. FEDDERSEN is a Doctoral Candidate and Teaching Associate in the Department of English at Oklahoma State University. He is one of the editors of The Tales We Tell: Perspectives on the Short Story (Greenwood, 1998).JAMES KURTZLEBEN is currently a web designer for Inlet, Inc. He was the Assistant Editor of Short Story and Literary Magazine Review and Managing Editor of the Journal of Caribbean Literatures.MAURICE A. LEE is Professor of English and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Central Arkansas. He is founder and Editor of the Journal of Caribbean Literature and Director of a biannual international conference on the short story, now in its twelfth year.SUSAN ROCHETTE-CRAWLEY is Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Northern Iowa.

• IntroductionChina Achebe by Charles DameronAma Atu Aidoo by Susan Rochette-CrawleyJessica Anderson by Selina SamuelsMargaret Eleanor Atwood by Linda H. Straubel & Gayle ElliottToni Cade Bambara by Carol FrankoJohn Simmons Barth by Terry J. MartinDonald Barthelme by Jerome KlinkowitzAnn Beattie by Michael Young and Troy ThibodeauxMorely Callaghan by Grant TraceyAngela Olive Carter by Erica BensonRaymond Carver by Hilary SiebertSandra Cisneros by L.M. LewisRobert Coover by Wayne B. StengelAnita Desai by Minoli SalgadoLouise Erdrich by Norma C. WilsonRichard Ford by Larry D. GriffinJanet Frame by Susan Rochette-CrawleyErnest J. Gaines by Mary Ellen DoyleMavis Gallant by Michael TrusslerNadine Gordimer by Christine LoflinPatricia Grace by Pierre-Damien MvuyekureGish Jen by R.C. FeddersonCharles Richard Johnson by Scharron A. Shy-ClaytonElizabeth Jolley by Brian DibbleJamaica Kincaid by Hemine LeeMaxine Hong Kingston by Jenny WangDoris Lessing by Richard OehlingBernard Malamud by Begoña Sîo CastiñeiraBobbie Ann Mason by Cheryl RobertsJames Alan McPherson by James KurtzlebenLoorie Moore by Susan Rochette-CrawleyBharati Mukherjee by Sherry Morton-MolloAlice Munro by J.R. (Tim) StruthersR.K. Narayan by Britta OlinderTim O'Brien by Brady HarrisonMichael Ondaatje by Allan WeissGrace Paley by Ann ChartersVelma Pollard by Pierre-Damien MvuyekureVictor S. Prichett by Karen TraceyJean Rhys by Paul KotrodimosSalman Rushdie by Farhat IftekharrudinSamuel Selvon by Hermine LeeOlive Senior by Mary GravittLeslie Marmon Silko by Neil NakadateAmy Tan by Elias EllefsonWilliam Trevor by Miriam Marty Clark

ERIN FALLON is a graduate student in English at the University of New Orleans. She is Assistant Coordinator of the International Conference on the Short Story in English, Recording Secretary for the Society for the Study of the Short Story, and Assistant Editor of Short Story.R.C. FEDDERSEN is a Doctoral Candidate and Teaching Associate in the Department of English at Oklahoma State University. He is one of the editors of The Tales We Tell: Perspectives on the Short Story (Greenwood, 1998).JAMES KURTZLEBEN is currently a web designer for Inlet, Inc. He was the Assistant Editor of Short Story and Literary Magazine Review and Managing Editor of the Journal of Caribbean Literatures.MAURICE A. LEE is Professor of English and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Central Arkansas. He is founder and Editor of the Journal of Caribbean Literature and Director of a biannual international conference on the short story, now in its twelfth year.SUSAN ROCHETTE-CRAWLEY is Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Northern Iowa.

• IntroductionChina Achebe by Charles DameronAma Atu Aidoo by Susan Rochette-CrawleyJessica Anderson by Selina SamuelsMargaret Eleanor Atwood by Linda H. Straubel & Gayle ElliottToni Cade Bambara by Carol FrankoJohn Simmons Barth by Terry J. MartinDonald Barthelme by Jerome KlinkowitzAnn Beattie by Michael Young and Troy ThibodeauxMorely Callaghan by Grant TraceyAngela Olive Carter by Erica BensonRaymond Carver by Hilary SiebertSandra Cisneros by L.M. LewisRobert Coover by Wayne B. StengelAnita Desai by Minoli SalgadoLouise Erdrich by Norma C. WilsonRichard Ford by Larry D. GriffinJanet Frame by Susan Rochette-CrawleyErnest J. Gaines by Mary Ellen DoyleMavis Gallant by Michael TrusslerNadine Gordimer by Christine LoflinPatricia Grace by Pierre-Damien MvuyekureGish Jen by R.C. FeddersonCharles Richard Johnson by Scharron A. Shy-ClaytonElizabeth Jolley by Brian DibbleJamaica Kincaid by Hemine LeeMaxine Hong Kingston by Jenny WangDoris Lessing by Richard OehlingBernard Malamud by Begoña Sîo CastiñeiraBobbie Ann Mason by Cheryl RobertsJames Alan McPherson by James KurtzlebenLoorie Moore by Susan Rochette-CrawleyBharati Mukherjee by Sherry Morton-MolloAlice Munro by J.R. (Tim) StruthersR.K. Narayan by Britta OlinderTim O'Brien by Brady HarrisonMichael Ondaatje by Allan WeissGrace Paley by Ann ChartersVelma Pollard by Pierre-Damien MvuyekureVictor S. Prichett by Karen TraceyJean Rhys by Paul KotrodimosSalman Rushdie by Farhat IftekharrudinSamuel Selvon by Hermine LeeOlive Senior by Mary GravittLeslie Marmon Silko by Neil NakadateAmy Tan by Elias EllefsonWilliam Trevor by Miriam Marty Clark

ERIN FALLON is a graduate student in English at the University of New Orleans. She is Assistant Coordinator of the International Conference on the Short Story in English, Recording Secretary for the Society for the Study of the Short Story, and Assistant Editor of Short Story.R.C. FEDDERSEN is a Doctoral Candidate and Teaching Associate in the Department of English at Oklahoma State University. He is one of the editors of The Tales We Tell: Perspectives on the Short Story (Greenwood, 1998).JAMES KURTZLEBEN is currently a web designer for Inlet, Inc. He was the Assistant Editor of Short Story and Literary Magazine Review and Managing Editor of the Journal of Caribbean Literatures.MAURICE A. LEE is Professor of English and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Central Arkansas. He is founder and Editor of the Journal of Caribbean Literature and Director of a biannual international conference on the short story, now in its twelfth year.SUSAN ROCHETTE-CRAWLEY is Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Northern Iowa.

• IntroductionChina Achebe by Charles DameronAma Atu Aidoo by Susan Rochette-CrawleyJessica Anderson by Selina SamuelsMargaret Eleanor Atwood by Linda H. Straubel & Gayle ElliottToni Cade Bambara by Carol FrankoJohn Simmons Barth by Terry J. MartinDonald Barthelme by Jerome KlinkowitzAnn Beattie by Michael Young and Troy ThibodeauxMorely Callaghan by Grant TraceyAngela Olive Carter by Erica BensonRaymond Carver by Hilary SiebertSandra Cisneros by L.M. LewisRobert Coover by Wayne B. StengelAnita Desai by Minoli SalgadoLouise Erdrich by Norma C. WilsonRichard Ford by Larry D. GriffinJanet Frame by Susan Rochette-CrawleyErnest J. Gaines by Mary Ellen DoyleMavis Gallant by Michael TrusslerNadine Gordimer by Christine LoflinPatricia Grace by Pierre-Damien MvuyekureGish Jen by R.C. FeddersonCharles Richard Johnson by Scharron A. Shy-ClaytonElizabeth Jolley by Brian DibbleJamaica Kincaid by Hemine LeeMaxine Hong Kingston by Jenny WangDoris Lessing by Richard OehlingBernard Malamud by Begoña Sîo CastiñeiraBobbie Ann Mason by Cheryl RobertsJames Alan McPherson by James KurtzlebenLoorie Moore by Susan Rochette-CrawleyBharati Mukherjee by Sherry Morton-MolloAlice Munro by J.R. (Tim) StruthersR.K. Narayan by Britta OlinderTim O'Brien by Brady HarrisonMichael Ondaatje by Allan WeissGrace Paley by Ann ChartersVelma Pollard by Pierre-Damien MvuyekureVictor S. Prichett by Karen TraceyJean Rhys by Paul KotrodimosSalman Rushdie by Farhat IftekharrudinSamuel Selvon by Hermine LeeOlive Senior by Mary GravittLeslie Marmon Silko by Neil NakadateAmy Tan by Elias EllefsonWilliam Trevor by Miriam Marty Clark