On Writing Short Stories
Tom Baileyis the author of several books, includingCrow Man Stories(2003) and the novelsThe Grace That Keeps This World(2006) andCotton Song(2006), as well asA Short Story Writer's Companion(OUP, 2000). His short stories have been anthologized in thePushcart Prizes, New Stories from theSouth, Streetsongs: New Voices in Fiction, and cited inThe Best American Short Stories. Among other awards for his writing, he has received a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship and a Newhouse Award from the John Gardner Foundation and was named winner of the 2006 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction. He currently teaches in the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University, where he is a professor of English and Creative Writing.