She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. Moderator Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is an assistant professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and lives in Worcester, MA.
Two stories from the collection received Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize.
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Kate McIntyre's first book is the story collection Mad Prairie, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award selected by series editor Roxane Gay. In Culvert, Kansas, Miriam finds closed mouths and big secrets: the toxic waste storage for the battery factory leaches into the soil the hog farm waste lagoons have sprung leaks and her students, at turns psychic, lethargic, and aggressive, might not be human. A bigot's newly transplanted liver gives him a taste for upbeat 1980s dance tracks while nudging him toward darker plans.Īnd across several stories, we follow Miriam, a young overachiever hell-bent on leaving her home state who is lured back after college to teach elementary school in a rural community. A Kansas politician grapples with international notoriety after an accident traps salt miners hundreds of feet underground-in the same salt mine where his brother was murdered. A mother must choose between her children and her personal safety when her husband steadily excavates a moat around their country home, his very own little border wall. Boundaries between fantasy and reality blur, and grotesque acts birth strange progeny. In this scary, funny, and slyly political short story collection, Kate McIntyre conjures a fever dream of contemporary Kansas.
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Celebrate the release of Mad Prairie-winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction-with author Kate McIntyre, in conversation with Roxane Gay! This event is free to attend-thank you for supporting us with your book purchases! Mad Prairie: Stories and a Novella