Andrew Malan Milward

Biography

Andrew Malan Milward is the author of the short-story collections I Was a Revolutionary (HarperCollins, August 2015) and The Agriculture Hall of Fame, which was awarded the Juniper Prize for Fiction (Massachusetts, 2012). His fiction has appeared in Zoetrope, American Short Fiction, Story, the Southern Review, Ninth Letter, and Best New American Voices. He teaches at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers.

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FICTION / Spring 2015

I Was a Revolutionary

By Andrew Malan Milward ,  Illustration by Ellen Weinstein

On the first day I tell them: “When searching for the Seven Cities of Cibola, Coronado was so disappointed by what he found in the land that would one day become Kansas that he strangled the guide who’d brought him here and turned around.”