HASANTHIKA SIRISENA is the winner of the University of Massachusetts Press’s Juniper Prize for Fiction. Her debut collection, The Other One, was released in 2016.
BRANDON TAYLOR is the associate editor of Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and a staff writer at Literary Hub. His writing has received fellowships from Lambda Literary, Kimbilio Fiction, and the Tin House Summer Workshop. His stories and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from Literary Hub, Catapult, Gulf Coast, Little Fiction, Amazon’s Day One, Out online, Necessary Fiction, Joyland, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Iowa City, where he is a student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in fiction.
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“The Kontrabida” from In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar, compilation copyright © 2015 by Mia Alvar. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
“Moosehide” by Carleigh Baker, from the story collection Bad Endings (Anvil Press, 2017). Used with permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.
“A Sheltered Woman” by Yiyun Li, originally published in The New Yorker. Copyright © 2014 by Yiyun Li, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
“If a Bird Can Be a Ghost” by Allison Mills, originally published in Apex Magazine, August 2017. Copyright © 2017 Allison Mills. All rights reserved.
A version of “Last Rites” by Dennis Norris II was published in Apogee Journal as “The Reverend.” Copyright © 2016 Dennis Norris II. All rights reserved.
“Surrender” by Hasanthika Sirisena. Copyright © 2010 by Hasanthika Sirisena. Originally appears in Guernica. Used by permission of Wolf Literary Services LLC, on behalf of the author. All rights reserved.
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Names: Baker, Jennifer, 1981– editor.
Title: Everyday people : the color of life—a short story anthology / [edited by] Jennifer Baker.
Description: First Atria Paperback edition. | New York : Atria Paperback, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017060013 (print) | LCCN 2018000990 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501134951 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501134944 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Short stories, American. | American fiction—21st century. | BISAC: FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors). | FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Urban Life.
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