Ms. Hempel Chronicles

Acknowledgments

I AM GRATEFUL TO the editors of the following publications, in which these stories have appeared: “Talent,” © 2000, Alaska Quarterly Review; “Accomplice,” © 2003, The Georgia Review and The Best American Short Stories 2004; “Sandman,” © 2006, Tin House; “Creep,” © 2005, TriQuarterly; “Crossing” (as “The Voyage Over”), © 2005, The Literary Review; “Yurt,” © 2008, The New Yorker.

I am especially thankful for the generous support and encouragement of the MacDowell Colony, Ledig House International Writers’ Residency, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.

A heartfelt thanks to Stuart Dybek.