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I’m thrilled that Pulitzer-prize-winning author Anthony Doerr has selected my story “Hellion,” originally published in The Georgia Review, to appear in Best American Short Stories 2019. My story will also be featured in Selected Shorts: Best American Short Stories with Anthony Doerr at Symphony Space in New York City this Wednesday, October 2. Actor Donna Lynne Champlin (of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) will read “Hellion,” and a recording of the show will be aired by radio stations around the country.

I wrote my very first flash-fiction crime piece for Tiny Crimes, edited by Lincoln Michel & Nadxieli Nieto. I’m psyched that Nylon recommends this killer anthology in their latest hot-summer-reads list: “46 Great Books to Read This Summer.”

I’m stoked, gobsmacked, tickled to death that Book Riot put The Wilds on this list: “100 Must-read Contemporary Short Story Collections.”

After watching Jeff VanderMeer’s weird and mesmerizing novel Annihilation become a New York Times bestseller, inspire an Alex Garland film, and shoot up to #7 on the trade paperback bestseller list today, I’m excited that Bustle put my story collection The Wilds on its list “21 Sci-Fi Books You Need to Read if You Loved ‘Annihilation’.”

I just got this dementedly delicious issue of Tin House in the mail. I’m stoked that my story “Erl King” appears along with work by Steven Millhauser, Emma Komlos-Hrobsky, Rebecca Makkai, and many talented others (lovely cover art by Nicoletta Ceccoli).

In “Discovering the Fabulists: The Value of the Bizarre in Literature,” Hannah Gilham discusses the impact of female fabulists on her writing.

“After workshopping a piece of my fiction last year, a classmate told me encouragingly that I might be writing in the fabulist tradition. She directed me toward the Tin House collection, Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime, and I do not say this lightly—everything changed.”

Currently obsessed with Her Body and Other Parties, a brilliant fusion of surreal sci-fi and feminist body horror, I’m happy that Carmen Machado has included my book The Wilds in her list of “6 favorite story collections.”

In her lovely book Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian’s Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life, Anna Spence says of The Wilds: “It looks like a book of fairy tales. And there is most assuredly some strange shit inside. There are medical spas with flesh-eating procedures and pirates. There are old ladies with robot legs. But there are also girls and women very much rooted in the realities of their existence. These stories are expansive in subject matter and deal with complete relationships and emotion.”

Margaret Kingsbury of BookRiot lists The Wilds in “100 Must-read SFF Short Story Collections“:

I’ve compiled 100 must-read SFF short story collections so you can set out devouring these bite-sized chocolaty treats of weird worlds and astounding stories too. I tried to pick newish authors and collections, so you won’t find any of the Pulp and Golden Age writers on this list (well, I snuck in an Ursula Le Guin, but it’s a new release!). There are 60 collections of individual author’s short stories, and 40 anthologies of multiple authors. For the anthologies, I only used an editor once. Many editors compile a ton of anthologies, like John Joseph Adams, Terri Windling, and Ellen Datlow. But I wanted to give as diverse a list as possible, so I only listed one by these editors.

Check out the full list.

Garden and Gun “asked experts at independent bookstores across the South for the summer reads they’re recommending to book lovers right now.” Jonathan Sanchez of Blue Bicycle Books in Charleston, SC describes The New and Improved Romie Futch as “a magical realism Southern gothic novel about this middle-aged, often drunk, often broke taxidermist. Sort of dark, very funny.” Check out the list here.