Nancy Zafris’s latest book, The Home Jar, a collection of short stories, was published in 2013. She has also written The People I Know, winner of the Flannery O’Connor award for short fiction and the Ohioana Library prize, as well as the novels The Metal Shredders and Lucky Strike. She has received two National Endowment for the Arts grants and has taught in the Czech Republic as a Fulbright fellow. She is the former fiction editor of the Kenyon Review and former series editor of the Flannery O’Connor award for short fiction.
Nov/Dec 2020
An Excerpt from “The Zimmerman Trees”
Read a micro-conversation with the author here. It was Friday in late February, and Henry Zimmerman and his wife sat in front of the fireplace. Ginny had the TV on. […]
Fiction
Nov/Dec 2020
The Zimmerman Trees
It was Friday in late February, and Henry Zimmerman and his wife sat in front of the fireplace. Ginny had the TV on. She was watching one of those afternoon […]
Interview
Fall 2007
A Conversation with Rebecca McClanahan
Rebecca McClanahan’s most recent books are Deep Light: New and Selected Poems 1987-2007 and The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings, which won the 2005 Glasgow Award for nonfiction. She has […]
Fiction
Spring 1999
Stealing the Llama Farm
There came a day when I stole the llama farm from Amy Boyd. I was in love with Amy Boyd and once long ago I had saved her father’s life […]
Fiction
Spring 1997
Feeding the Stick
So how did I meet Mr. Hung of the Wel-Hung Express? The short version goes, his children liked me. The long version is read on. First thing I’ll tell you, […]
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Lee K. Abbott
Lee K. Abbott was tall and effortlessly masculine. His impossibly thick hair must have been the envy of a lot of guys. Forget about unsurpassed brains and talent—with his rancher’s […]
Spring 2013
Man in Circles
Lately I am overcome with fatigue. I am too tired for sexual intercourse. Nor can I read a magazine article about it. I cannot call across a tavern counter with any kind of greeting, even to the bartender.
Spring 2009
Nothing
1. Three years ago I was making a living as a realtor. The market was on fire. Even a newcomer like me could move houses. All I had to do […]
Nancy Zafris
Nancy Zafris is the former fiction editor of the Kenyon Review and the former series editor of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She has published four books of […]