Everywhere Stories Contributor Spotlight: Barbara Krasner

Everywhere Stories Volume III

Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small PlanetVolume III is now available for pre-order. Like the earlier volumes, this book includes 20 short stories by 20 writers set in 20 countries. Barbara Krasner’s story is set in the Czech Republic.

 

 

Barbara Krasner is a PhD candidate in Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Gratz College and holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her fiction has appeared in Michigan Quarterly ReviewJewishfiction.netLilithJewish Literary JournalJewish Women’s Literary Annual, and other publications. Her short story, “The Guardian,” based in Poland, appeared in Everywhere Stories, Volume II. She teaches the Holocaust, professional and creative writing, and composition in New Jersey.

Comment on “The Last Survivor”: “The Last Survivor” was prompted by interviewing a survivor in a Jewish Studies class during my 2011 Prague Summer Program.

 

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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