Alan Heathcock

Biography

Alan Heathcock is the author of VOLT, a collection of stories (Graywolf, 2011). The book was named a Publishers Weekly debut to watch for 2011, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and selected for inclusion in the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers series. His story, “Peacekeeper,” published in the Fall 2005 issue of VQR, won the National Magazine Award for Fiction and was selected for Best American Mystery Stories.

See Work

FICTION / Fall 2011

The Born Agains

By Alan Heathcock
FICTION / Fall 2005

Peacekeeper

By Alan Heathcock

Spring, 1993: There were more direct routes to the Oddfellows Hall, on a dry knob north of town, but Helen Farraley could not see below the muddy flood waters, couldn’t risk wrecking the boat on a tree, or chimney, or telephone pole; who...