Alison Baker

Publications

BOOKS


LOVING WANDA BEAVER
Novella and Stories

Chronicle Books, 1995
A New York Times Notable Book
"A writer of considerable power." -- San Francisco Chronicle

HOW I CAME WEST, AND WHY I STAYED
Stories

Chronicle Books, 1993
A New York Times Notable Book
Finalist, Oregon Book Awards
"...luminous with verbal play and intimations of how ordinary strangeness can be." -- Kirkus Reviews

UNCOLLECTED SHORT STORIES


"The Pope's Boutique"
in BELLEVUE LITERARY REVIEW (forthcoming)

"I'll Meet You There"
in MINNETONKA REVIEW (forthcoming)

"Content Yourself With Achieving Precise Results"
in ALASKA QUARTERLY REVIEW

"Debris"
in HOTEL AMERIKA

“Descansos”
in JABBERWOCK REVIEW

"Happy Hour"
in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

"Thousands Live!"
in THE GETTYSBURG REVIEW

"One Owner, Runs"
in STORY

"North of Mount Shasta"
in STORY

"Bodie's Glen"
in ZYZZYVA

SELECTED ESSAYS


"Wabash Daughter"
in WABASH MAGAZINE

"Keep On Removing the Words, One By One"
in THE WORCESTER REVIEW

"The Dead and the Living"
in SHENANDOAH

"Fishing the Green"
in ORION


ANTHOLOGIES


THE BEDFORD INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
St. Martin's Press, 1998; 2002; 2004

THINKING AND WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE
2d ed., Bedford/​St. Martin's, 2001

VIRTUAL FUTURE
Persea Press, 1997

THE EARTH AT OUR DOORSTEP: CONTEMPORARY WRITERS CELEBRATE THE LANDSCAPE OF HOME
Sierra Club Books, 1996

STRANGE ATTRACTION: THE BEST TEN YEARS OF ZYZZYVA
University of Nevada Press, 1995

WOMEN ON HUNTING
The Ecco Press, 1995

WILD WOMEN: CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORIES
FOR WOMEN CELEBRATING WOMEN
The Overlook Press, 1994

CIRCLE OF WOMEN: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY WESTERN WOMEN WRITERS
Viking Penguin, 1994

FROM HERE WE SPEAK: AN ANTHOLOGY OF OREGON POETRY
Oregon State University Press, 1993

FROM A to Z: 200 CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETS
Swallow Press Books/​Ohio University Press, 1981

ABOUT ALISON BAKER'S WORK


A Likeable Rational: Byron Glass in Alison Baker's "Better be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight"; McKenna, John J., EUREKA STUDIES IN TEACHING SHORT FICTION 9(1)Fall 2008:7-12
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