Beth Bosworth is the author of The Source of Life and Other Stories (University of Pittsburgh Press), for which she received the Drue Heinz Literature Prize in 2012. Her other books are the novel Tunneling (Crown Books) and a debut collection, A Burden of Earth and Other Stories (Hanging Loose Press). She divides her time between Vermont and Brooklyn, NY, where she teaches English at Saint Ann’s School and edits The Saint Ann’s Review.
Fiction
Winter 2012
The Source of Life
The dogs don’t know it but we’re running out of water. The power went out for a day, a few days ago, and they told us to boil our tap […]
Fiction
Summer/Fall 1999
The Year the World Turned
On the windy path to school, a few brown leaves spiraled; others only huddled by the long gray curb. “Come on,” you whispered. Remember? Finally you turned, flew at them, […]
Fall 2015
Love
The Irish boy fell in love the same day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The year was 1941, the month December, the hour a quarter to ten in the morning, […]
Beth Bosworth
A micro-interview with Beth Bosworth by KR Associate Jasmine Thomas. Beth Bosworth is the author of A Burden of Earth and Other Stories and of the novel Tunneling. Her fiction […]