Byzantium: Stories

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The stories in this collection were originally published in the following:

“Byzantium” in Electric Literature; “East Texas Lumber” in Harper’s; “The Don’s Cinnamon” in the Antioch Review and Best American Mystery Stories 2013; “Borden’s Meat Biscuit” in Subtropics; “The Traitor of Zion” in Ecotone; “Eraser” in One Story and New Stories from the South 2010: The Year’s Best; “At Boquillas” in The American Scholar; “Tayopa” and “The Moor” in Boston Review; and “Amy” in the Literary Review.

Thanks to: The University of Michigan Hopwood Prizes, the University of Toledo’s URAF Summer Research Award, the MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, Helen Herzog Zell, my MFA classmates and teachers, Jin Auh, Jacqueline Ko, Steve Woodward, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.