We Are the Stories We Tell: The Best Short Stories by North American Women Since 1945

A collection of twenty-six of the finest stories by the finest women writers to come out of the U.S. and Canada in the past fifty years. Organized by publication date, authors include Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Margaret Atwood, Anne Tyler, Tama Janowitz, Sandra Cisneros, Mary Gordon, and Alice Walker.

WENDY MARTIN is chair of the Department of English at Claremont Graduate University. She is also the editor of More Stories We Tell (available from Pantheon). Martin founded and has continued to edit Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and is Professor of American Literature and American Studies at Claremont Graduate University. She lives in Berkeley, California.