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  About Sara Batkie

  Sara Batkie was born in Seattle and raised in the wilds of Connecticut and Iowa. Her stories have been published in various journals, received mention in the 2011 Best American Short Stories anthology, and honored with a 2017 Pushcart Prize. Currently she lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as the Writing Programs Director for the Center for Fiction.

  In the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction series

  Last Call: Stories

  By K. L. Cook

  Carrying the Torch: Stories

  By Brock Clarke

  Nocturnal America

  By John Keeble

  The Alice Stories

  By Jesse Lee Kercheval

  Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories

  By Katherine Vaz

  Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection

  By Anne Finger

  Bliss, and Other Short Stories

  By Ted Gilley

  Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories

  By Greg Hrbek

  Little Sinners, and Other Stories

  By Karen Brown

  Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories

  By Xhenet Aliu

  Now We Will Be Happy

  By Amina Gautier

  When Are You Coming Home?: Stories

  By Bryn Chancellor

  One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist: Stories

  By Dustin M. Hoffman

  Black Jesus and Other Superheroes: Stories

  Venita Blackburn

  Better Times: Short Stories

  Sara Batkie

  To order or obtain more information on these or other University of Nebraska Press titles, visit nebraskapress.unl.edu.