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From Baobab Press, in coordination with the University of Nevada, Reno's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, comes This Side of the Divide: Stories, the first anthology in a literary series attempting to capture the newness, vastness, territoriality and sense of transience alive in the American West.

Set west of the Continental Divide, these narratives skillfully demonstrate the beauty, austerity, and danger of the untouched wilderness, delight in the mutual ease and asphyxiation of the hyper-urban and chart the interstitial spaces of the developing and the abandoned. Inhabiting the West's richly varied landscapes, the characters in these stories provide a glimpse of the social and cultural diversity on display in these regions. Among these 15 stories, gathered from rising literary voices, a single mother struggles to maintain her individuality while raising an autistic son; a cathartic hike brings an unsuspecting widow face-to-face with her own mortality; a man injured in a train wreck questions his existence as he blindly wanders the desert; an aging cowboy rides the highways astride his magnificent horse, a final remnant of a fleeting era; Sasquatch looks for love in all the wrong places; and a divorcee tries to reconcile her present with her past, her heart with her head.

Positioning the voices of emerging authors alongside acclaimed writers such as Tobias Wolff, Brian Evenson and Nona Caspers, these collected stories, at turns hilarious, frightening, and devastating, showcase the variety of identity, amalgam of voice and depth of character that make the American West such a truly brilliant, literary mosaic.

Contributors include Tobias Wolff, Maile Meloy, Brian Evenson, Melinda Moustakis, Nona Caspers, Douglas W. Milliken, David Gillette, Miranda Schmidt, Michelle Willms, Andrea Lani, Leah Griesmann, Vanessa Hua, Cathy Warner, Mark Maynard, Aharon Levy, Sian Griffiths, L.L. Madrid, Kirk Wilson, Ashley Davidson, Carl Beideman, E.G. Willy, Shelley Blanton-Stroud, and Linda Lenhoff.

Tobias Wolff's books include the memoirs This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War; the short novel The Barracks Thief; the novel Old School, and four collections of short stories, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Back in the World, The Night in Question, and, most recently, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories. His work is translated widely and has been recognized with numerous awards. In 2015 he received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama.

Nona received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 2008. Heavier than Air was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice in 2007 and won the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction the year before. Her individual stories have won other awards, including the Iowa Review Fiction Award in 2002, the Missouri Review Editor's Prize finalist in two separate years, the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Grant and Award, and a nomination for the 1990 LAMBDA award. Nona lives in San Francisco with her partner of nine years. When she's not sitting in a sunny spot in her office writing, she enjoys the slow movement of a life well-attended: taking walks, gardening, and waiting for some nuance to spark another story.

Melinda Moustakis was born in Fairbanks, Alaska and raised in California. She is the author of Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award and was a 5 Under 35 selection by the National Book Foundation. She is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize, the Hodder Fellowship, the NEA Literature Fellowship in Fiction, the Kenyon Review Fellowship, the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington Fellowship, and the Rona Jaffe Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library.

BRIAN EVENSON is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses and the novella The Warren. He has been a finalist for a Shirley Jackson Award five times, for the Edgar Award once, and has won the International Horror Guild Award. His novel Last Days won the ALA-RUSA award for Best Horror Novel of the year. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. A new collection of stories, Song for the Unraveling of the World, will be published in 2019. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts.

Claire Vaye Watkins was born in Bishop, California in 1984. She was raised in the Mojave Desert, in Tecopa, California and Pahrump, Nevada. A graduate of the University of Nevada Reno, Claire earned her MFA from the Ohio State University, where she was a Presidential Fellow. She is the author of the novel Gold Fame Citrus and the short story collection Battleborn, which won the Story Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta, Tin House, Freeman's, The Paris Review, Story Quarterly, New American Stories, Best of the West, The New Republic, The New York Times, Pushcart Prize XLIII and many others. A Guggenheim Fellow, one of the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" and Granta's "Best Young American Novelists," Claire is the director and co-founder, with Derek Palacio, of the Mojave School, a festival of art and literature in the Mojave Desert.