Publishing is a profession and also a calling, and the series editor is grateful to the skilled and dedicated editorial, production, and publicity staff at Anchor Books. Each year, Diana Secker Tesdell edits the series editor with grace and patience.

Kelly Luce was the editorial assistant for The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016, and the series editor enjoyed her intelligence, broad taste, and keen sense of the importance of literature.

The graduate school and Department of English of the University of Texas at Austin supports The O. Henry Prize Stories in many ways. The series editor thanks the university and especially Professor Elizabeth Cullingford.

—LF