The Best American Short Stories 1997

Edna Ann Proulx is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx. She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards, making her the first woman to receive the prize. Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was adapted as a 2001 film of the same name. Her short...

Carolyn Cook is an author known for her short fiction. Her work has been included in collections such as The Best American Short Stories 1997.

Ha Jin is a Chinese-American author who writes historical fiction and stories about the immigrant experience. He is best known for his novel War Trash and the National Book Award-winning Waiting. His books focus on how ordinary people navigate life during times of political change.

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.