New Stories from the Midwest

Jason Lee Brown teaches writing at Eastern Illinois University and is a contributing editor to River Styx. He has received awards from the Illinois Arts Council, Academy of American Poets, and Illinois Press Association. He is editor (with Jay Prefontaine) of the 2011 edition of New Stories from the Midwest. Shanie Latham is Assistant Professor of English at Jefferson College, Missouri. She is Managing Editor at River Styx.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Editors' Note
Introduction
1. Mr. Scary Charles Baxter from Ploughshares
2. To Psychic Underworld Dan Chaon from Tin House
3. Townie Roderic Crooks from Gulf Coast
4. The Amnesiac in the Maze Michael Czyzniejewski from Ninth Letter
5. The Deep Anthony Doerr from Zoetrope
6. Circling in the Air David Driscoll from Mississippi Review
7. Down to Bone Roxane Gay from Mid-American Review
8. Starry Night Lania Knight from Jabberwock Review
9. Peter Torrelli Falling Down Rebecca Makkai from Tin House
10. In Which a Coffin Is a Bed but an Ox Is Not a Coffin Brenda K. Marshall
from Michigan Quarterly Review
11. Drunk Girl in Stilettos Lee Martin from The Georgia Review
12. The State Bird of Minnesota Charles McLeod from Michigan Quarterly Review
13. The Five Points of Performance Christopher Mohar from Southwest Review
14. The Baby Glows David James Poissant from The Southern Review
15. Splendid, Silent Sun Yelizaveta P. Renfro from Glimmer Train
16. Miscarriages Shannon Robinson from Nimrod International Journal
17. American Bulldog Chad Simpson from Crab Orchard Review
18. Twelve + Twelve Christine Sneed from Glimmer Train
19. A Dry Season Ian Stansel from Ecotone
20. Schnecks Mark Wisniewski from Alaska Quarterly Review
Contributors