Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates’s numerous awards include a winner of the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and PEN/Malamud Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Short Story. Her short stories have received more than two dozen O. Henry Awards and appeared in as many volumes in the Best American series. After six previous nominations, her short story “Smother,” originally published in VQR’s Fall 2005 issue, received the National Magazine Award for Fiction. It will also appear in the 2006 editions of Best American Mystery Stories and Best American Magazine Writing.

Published in VQR

• EDickinsonRepliLuxe, Writers on Writers - A Special Fiction Issue of VQR
• Smother, Fall 2005
• So Help Me God, Winter 2005
• The Stone Well, Summer 1997
• Foster Home, Winter 1988
• Lost Creek, Spring 1987
• Island, 1949, Spring 1987
• Romance and Anti-Romance: From Bronte’s Jane Eyre to Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, Winter 1985
• The Masquers, Summer 1984
• The Loss, Autumn 1981
• Boredom, Autumn 1981
• The Birthday Celebration, Winter 1980
• Last Things, Autumn 1979