(The editors also wish to mention the following important works published by small presses last year. Listings are in no particular order.)
FICTION
The Enigma of Grover’s Mill—Bradford Morrow (The Uninnocent, Pegasus Books)
The Fabulous Bestiary of Alton’s Greek—Harrison Scott Key (The Pinch)
Wingman—Leslie Parry (Indiana Review)
Breviary—Jason Schwartz (New York Tyrant)
The Master of Patina—Miles Harvey (Agni)
Chametla—Luis Alberto Urrea (Tin House)
The Perfect Age—Kevin Moffett (Paris Review)
That’s My Bike!—Paul Murray (Paris Review)
Is That You, Walt Whitman?—Therese Stanton (A Public Space)
The Teacher And The Revolution—Diane Chang (Glimmer Train Stories)
Open Mic—Sarah Frisch (New England Review)
The Dean And Mrs. Hess—Jamaica Kincaid (Little Star) Motherfucker—Aimee Bender (Harvard Review)
Downstream—James Scott (Ploughshares)
Beach Vacation—Christine Sneed (Southern Review)
The Long Net—Anna Solomon (Missouri Review)
Atlantis—Richard Burgin (New Jersey, Akashic Books)
Blood Feud—Katie Chase (ZYZZYVA)
In The Zone—T.C. Boyle (Kenyon Review)
The Brother-In-Law and The Beach—Michael Czyzniejewski (Gulf Coast)
Dad Stuff—Benjamin Rybeck (Ninth Letter)
Welcome To The Authentic Trail of Tears—Michael Gills (Texas Review)
Champions of the World—Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry (Southern Review)
Panorama City—Antoine Wilson (A Public Space)
All Their Riches—David Yost (The Sun)
Here Is What—Robyn Parnell (Bellevue Literaiy Review)
Walk With Us—Askold Melnyczuk (Massachusetts Review)
Zero Gains—Bonnie Nadzam (Image)
1.7 To Tennessee—Jamie Quatro (Antioch Review)
Composite Body—Tony Tulathimutte (Cimarron Review)
The Letter—Miroslav Penkov (A Public Space)
A Family Matter—Keya Mitra (Kenyon Review)
Your Taxi Is The Greatest Movement—Mikael Awake (Witness)
I Looked For You, I Called Your Name—Laura Van Den Berg (Ploughshares)
Bread Alley—Sarah Tourjee (Anomalous)
The Boys Club—Maura Candela (The Common)
Summer, Boys—Ethan Rutherford (One Stoiy)
Lust For Life—Susan Berman (ZYZZYVA)
Screen Test—Leslie Bazzett (New England Review)
The Associated Virgins—Rosalie Morales Keams (Witness)
The Joy of Cooking—Elissa Schappell (One Story)
Felina—Rachel Swearingen (Mississippi Review)
The Fixed Idea—April Bernard (Little Star)
My Hand Is My Cub—Phong Nguyen (New Letters)
Dream Houses—Bonnie Jo Campbell (Notre Dame Review)
The Vandercook—Alice Mattison (Ecotone)
Life Among The Terranauts—Caitlin Horrocks (One Stoiy)
Maybe We’re The Angels—Jeff P. Jones (Five Points)
The Polish Bride—Tracy Pearce (Colorado Review)
But Now Am Found—Patti Horvath (Bellevue Literaiy Review)
The Miracle Worker—Mia Alvar (Missouri Review)
The Ranger Queen of Sulphur—Stephanie Soileau (Ecotone)
To Reach Japan—Alice Munro (Narrative)
Rothko Eggs—Keith Ridway (Zoetrope)
No Rabio—Tim Fitts (Gettysburg Review)
Want—Deb Olin Unferth (Noon)
Not Even Lions and Tigers—Steve Amick (Cincinnati Review)
The Anger Meridian—Kaylie Jones (Southampton Review)
Remain in Light—Gaiy Lain (Fiction International)
Ahmed s Wife—Scott Tucker (Alaska Quarterly)
The Reader—Nathan Englander (Electric Literature)
Beautiful Souls—Joan Leegant (Colorado Review)
Paolos Turn—Karen Laws (Georgia Review)
Trash—Gilbert Allen (Southern Review)
The Showrunner—Frankie Thomas (At Length)
NONFICTION
The View from 90—Doris Grumbach (American Scholar)
The Labyrinth—Philip Appleman (Free Inquiry)
Bom Again And Again—Joe Miller (New Letters)
The Special Populations Unit—Chanan Tigay (McSweeney s)
You Never Know Your Luck—Christopher Buckley (Packinghouse Re view)
Resurrections—Christopher Dickens (Florida Review)
Next Year, For Sure—Zoey Peterson (Malahat Review)
Visions—Kristen Cosby (Normal School)
Coming of Age In Book Country—Bonnie Friedman (Ploughshares) A Gyroscope on The Island of Love—Michael McGregor (Image)
A Beauty—Robert Boyers (Agni)
Dancing For the Bomb—Iraj Isaac Rahmim (Missouri Review)
The Room and The Elephant—Sven Birkerts (Los Angeles Review) Speed Freaks—Ginger Strand (Orion)
The Death of The Book—Ben Ehrenreich (LA Review)
To Cepe, with Love—E.J. Levy (Salmagundi)
One Message Leading to Another—John Berger (Massachusetts Re view)
Night Piece—Judith Kitchen (Georgia Review)
Displaced—Norma Marder (Gettysburg Review)
My Mothers Burning Body—Jaed Muncharoen Coffin (The Sun)
The Currency of Love—Linda Lancione (New Letters)
My Night With Ellen Hutchinson—Bud Shaw (Creative Nonfiction) What Is American In Modem American Poetry?—Jane Hirshfield (World Literature Today)
Migrants on the Barrens—Connie Voisine (Cimarron Review) Telegraphing—Jonathan Bohr Heinen (Cimarron Review)
Chinese Dreams—Anand Giridharadas (Antioch Review)
A Prayer For the Catcher—Jeffrey Hammond (Gettysburg Review) The Sex Lives of African Girls—Taiye Selasi (Granta)
Breaking The Spell of Money—Scott Russell Sanders (Orion)
Chunks of Ugly—Ben Langston (Fourth Genre)
Objects of Affection—Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough (Ploughshares) Driving At Night—Caiyl Pagel (Agni)
Rapture State—Jacob Newberry (River Styx)
Pocketing—Peggy Shinner (Alaska Review)
Narcissa Red—Debra Gwartney (Oregon Review)
In The Flesh—Martha Wiseman (Georgia Review)
Elegy and Narrative—John W. Evans (Missouri Review)
The Magic Piano—Aleksandra Crapanzano (Narrative)
The Absence of Jell-O—Jacob M. Appel (Southwest Review)
The Canceled Invitation—Wes Hempel (Alaska Quarterly Review) Hail Mary Time?—Jonny Thakkar (The Point)
Inappropriate—Tracy Lynch (Brain, Child)
Motherhood’s Unlikely Soundtrack—Jennifer Ruden (High Desert Journal)
House #36—Lisa Gill (North Dakota Review)
Salvation For Civilians—John Lingan (The Point)
When Ronald Met Czeslow—Dennis O’Driscoll (Five Points)
Facing The Monolith—Ander Monson (Ecotone)
Hope—Poe Ballantine (Ecotone)
POETRY
Other—Andrea Hollander Budy (Spillway)
Diabetic—Sigman Byrd (Ploughshares)
The Onset—Rachael Hadas (Examined Life)
Mrs. Mason and The Poets—David Mason (Hudson Review)
Alien Resident—Mihaela Moscaliuc (Cardinal Points)
That Morning—Stanley Moss (American Poetry Review)
Cold Snap, November—Lucia Perillo (American Poetry Review) Hemispheres of Influence—John Ridland (Hudson Review)
My Father’s Watches—Grace Schulman (Ploughshares)
Hitting and Getting Hit—Philip Schultz (Ploughshares)
Madelstam Didn’t Join My Grandfather—Philip Terman (from The Torah Garden-Autumn House)
The Cricket in the Sump—Catherine Tufariello (Able Muse)
Brutal Filament Inside Aglow—Dean Young (Threepenny Review) Uncle’s Piece—John Bargowski (Paterson Literary Review)
One Day The Doctor Tells You You’re Blind—Todd Boss (Michigan Quarterly Review)
Confluence—Geoffrey Brock (Subtropics)
from Melt —Derick Burleson (Poetry International)
Hubcap—Andrea Cohen (Threepenny Review)
Lecture on Emmett Till—Brendan Constantine (The Pinch)
Veronicas of a Matador—Caroline Ebeid (Crazyhorse)
God Believes In Amy—Farrah Field (Sink Review)
Autobiography (Pink Remix)—Joanna Fuhrman (The Believer) Mother and Child (The Road At The Edge of The Field)—Jorie Graham (Lana Turner)
Putin with Lynch—Anthony McCann (Wave Books)
I Can’t Sleep, So I Bum My Underpants—Amy Newday (Calyx)
Frost At Midmoming—Nate Pritts (MAKE)
December Weight Training: The Parking Lot—Joshua Ruffin (The Pinch)