Best American Series

Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California, and moved with her family to Nashville, Tennessee at age six. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 1990, during a residential fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars, which was named a New York Times Notable Book for 1992. Her second novel, Taft (1994), was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for fiction. Her fo...

The Houghton Mifflin Company Staff is behind the highly regarded Best American Series. Each year, they bring readers a curated collection of top-tier writing across various genres, making it a go-to for contemporary literature.

Katrina Kenison is a writer whose short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories collections. Her work was selected for the anthologies in both 2001 and 2006.