Best Debut Short Stories 2024

About the Authors

Sindya Bhanoo’s fiction has appeared in Granta, New England Review, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an O. Henry Award, the Disquiet Literary Prize and scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers conferences. A longtime newspaper reporter, she has worked for The New York Times and The Washington Post. She is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers, UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and Carnegie Mellon University. She lives in Corvallis, OR and teaches at Oregon State University.

Ayşegül Savaş is the author of the acclaimed novels Walking on the Ceiling and White on White. Her work has been translated into seven languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, and elsewhere.

Sidik Fofana is the author of the story collection Stories from the Tenants Downstairs. His work has appeared in the Sewanee Review and Granta. He was named a fellow at the Center for Fiction in 2018.