Robert Olen Butler

Robert Olen Butler is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Holt, 1992), the title story of which originally appeared in VQR. His most recent books include From Where You
Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction (Grove, 2005) and Severance (Chronicle, 2006).

Published in VQR

• Intercourse, Spring 2007
• Five Beheadings, Fall 2004
• The Handwriting on the Wall, Winter 1994
• Fairy Tale, Autumn 1990