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About the Author

Alan DeNiro (alandeniro.com) was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the College of Wooster with a B.A. in English and the University of Virginia with an M.F.A. in creative writing. He is the author of the story collection
Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead
and the novel
Total Oblivion, More or Less.
His short stories have appeared in
One Story, Asimov’s, Santa Monica Review, Interfictions,
and elsewhere. He lives outside of St. Paul, Minnesota with his wife Kristin Livdahl and their twins, Ally and Toby.

Short story collections and novels from Small Beer Press for independently minded readers

Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud,
A Life on Paper: Stories

First translation from the French of “The celebrated Châteaureynaud.”—
New York Times

Alan DeNiro,
Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead: Stories

Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award Longlist · Crawford Award finalist · Book Sense Pick.

“A great debut collection of loopy, off-the-wall, and still-somehow-packing-emotional-weight stories; DeNiro can weld words into some mighty strange configurations.”

—Caleb Wilson, Davis-Kidd Booksellers, Nashville, TN

Karen Joy Fowler,
What I Didn’t See and Other Stories

“In all these stories, Fowler (
Sarah Canary, The Jane Austen Book Club
) delights in luring her readers from the walks of ordinary life into darker, more fantastical realms. . . Fowler’s closing story, “King Rat,” is a masterpiece.”—
Seattle Times

Greer Gilman,
Cry Murder! in a Small Voice

Ben Jonson, playwright, poet, satirist . . . detective.

Elizabeth Hand,
Errantry: Stories

“Elegant nightmares, sensuously told.”—
Publishers Weekly

The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin

Two volumes:
Where on Earth
&
Outer Space, Inner Land

“No better spirit in all of American letters than that of Ursula K. Le Guin.”—
Slate

Karen Lord,
Redemption in Indigo

Mythopoeic, Crawford, Carl Brandon Parallax, & Frank Collymore Award winner

“Filled with witty asides, trickster spiders, poets and one very wise woman, “Redemption in Indigo” is a rare find that you could hand to your child, your mother or your best friend.”

—
Washington Post

Vincent McCaffrey,
Hound

“McCaffrey, the owner of Boston’s legendary Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop, succeeds in conveying his love of books in his intriguing debut.”—
Publishers Weekly

Maureen F. McHugh,
After the Apocalypse: Stories

“Incisive, contemporary, and always surprising.”—
Publishers Weekly
Top 10 Books of the Year

“An imaginative homage to the human ability to endure.”—
Booklist
(*starred review*)

Naomi Mitchison,
Travel Light

“The enchantments of
Travel Light
contain more truth, more straight talking, a grittier, harder-edged view of the world than any of the mundane descriptions of daily life you will find in the science fiction stories.”—
SF Site

Sofia Samatar,
A Stranger in Olondria

“Samatar’s sensual descriptions create a rich, strange landscape, allowing a lavish adventure to unfold that is haunting and unforgettable.”—
Library Journal
(*starred review*)

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