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Name
  
Alison Baker

Role
  
Short story writer

Education
  
Reed College


Books
  
How I Came West - and, Loving Wanda Beaver, Happy Hour: Stories, New England A to Z

Alison Baker (born 1953 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American short story writer.

Contents

Life

She graduated from Reed College and Indiana University with a MLS. She worked as a medical librarian and a library activist.

Her work has appeared in Shenandoah, the Atlantic Monthly, Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, Orion Nature Quarterly, the Washington Post, Witness, ZYZZYVA.

She was a Ragdale Foundation resident and a Fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Awards

  • 1992 George Garrett Fiction Award for "Field Notes"
  • 1994 O. Henry Award
  • the Gettysburg Review Award
  • George Garrett Award for Fiction
  • finalist for the National Magazine Award.

    • Works

  • Loving Wanda Beaver: Novella and Stories. Chronicle Books. 1997. ISBN 978-0-8118-1788-2. 
  • How I Came West, and Why I Stayed. Chronicle Books. April 1, 1993. ISBN 978-0-8118-0324-3. 

    • Anthologies

  • The Best American Short Stories 1993
  • Best of the West
  • New Stories From the South
  • Pushcart Prize.

    • References

    Alison Baker (writer) Wikipedia
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