Alison Baker
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WelcomeAlison Baker is the author of two short story collections, LOVING WANDA BEAVER and HOW I CAME WEST, AND WHY I STAYED; each was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Her fiction has received several O. Henry Awards (including First Prize), the Gettysburg Review Award, the George Garrett Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. It has been recognized in Best American Short Stories, Best of the West, New Stories From the South, and The Pushcart Prize. Her work has been featured on Selected Shorts at New York’s Symphony Space and dramatized for stage in Seattle, San Francisco, and Takoma Park, Maryland. Rumor has it that one of her short stories was once made into a movie starring Allison Janney. Her fiction, poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in such publications as Shenandoah, the Atlantic Monthly, Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, the Oregonian, Orion Nature Quarterly, the Washington Post, Witness, ZYZZYVA, and numerous anthologies. Her short fiction has been translated into Japanese, too. She has served on the advisory board of Writers@Work and the editorial board of Wabash Magazine. She has been a resident at Ragdale, VCCA, and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony. A graduate of Reed College and Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, she has worked as a medical librarian and a library activist. She was named 2001 Oregon Library Supporter of the Year by the Oregon Library Association. She and her husband, Hans Rilling, live on Cape Cod. Agent: Gail Hochman Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Inc. 1501 Broadway, Suite 2310 New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 840-5760 Fax: (212) 840-5776 |
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