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Aria Beth Sloss

Aria Beth Sloss’s short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Joyland, One Story, and The Best American Short Stories 2015. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Sloss is the author of a novel, Autobiography of Us (Henry Holt, 2013). She lives in New York City with her family.

Fiction

Winter 2024

Thin Air

By Aria Beth Sloss

The Kenyon Review · “Thin Air” by Aria Beth Sloss My girls. One of them — the elder, I think, the tread was steadier up the stairs — just banged on the door of […]