The O. Henry Prize Stories 2011

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PEN/O. Henry Juror Acknowledgments

“A. M. Homes on ‘Sunshine’ by Lynn Freed,” copyright © 2011 by A. M. Homes. Reprinted by agreement of the author, administered by The Wylie Agency, LLC.

“Manuel Muñoz on ‘Something You Can’t Live Without’ by Matthew Neill Null,” copyright © 2011 by Manuel Muñoz. Reprinted by agreement of the author, administered by Stuart Bernstein Representation for Artists.

“Christine Schutt on ‘Your Fate Hurtles Down at You’ by Jim Shepard,” copyright © 2011 by Christine Schutt. Reprinted by agreement of the author.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

“The Black Square” first appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. Copyright © 2009 by Chris Adrian. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Nightblooming” first appeared in The Paris Review, Issue 189, Summer 2009. Copyright © 2009 by Kenneth Calhoun. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“How to Leave Hialeah” first appeared in Epoch. Copyright © 2009 by Jen-nine Capó Crucet. From How to Leave Hialeah, published by the University of Iowa Press, 2009. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Nothing of Consequence” first appeared in Narrative Magazine. Copyright © 2009 by Jane Delury. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Restoration of the Villa Where Tíbor Kálmán Once Lived” first appeared in One Story. Copyright © 2009 by Tamas Dobozy. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Melinda” first appeared in The Kenyon Review. Copyright © 2009 by Judy Doenges. Reprinted by permission of The Wylie Agency.

“Windeye” first appeared in PEN America. Copyright © 2009 by Brian Evenson. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Rules Are the Rules” first appeared in Granta. Copyright © 2010 by Adam Foulds. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Sunshine” first appeared in Narrative Magazine, Spring 2010. Copyright © 2010 by Lynn Freed. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Junction” first appeared, in slightly different form, in Ecotone. From The Spot by David Means. Copyright © 2010 by David Means. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

“Pole, Pole” first appeared in The Kenyon Review. Copyright © 2009 by Susan Minot. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Something You Can’t Live Without” first appeared in the Oxford American. Copyright © 2010 by Matthew Neill Null. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Bed Death” first appeared in The Kenyon Review. From The Bigness of the World: Stories, published by the University of Georgia Press. Copyright © 2009 by Lori Ostlund. Reprinted by permission of the University of Georgia Press.

“The Vanishing American” first appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 85, No. 4, Fall 2009. Copyright © 2009 by Leslie Parry. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Your Fate Hurtles Down at You” first appeared in Electric Literature. Copyright © 2009 by Jim Shepard. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Diary of an Interesting Year” first appeared in The New Yorker. Copyright © 2009 by Helen Simpson. Reprinted by permission of The Joy Harris Literary Agency, Inc., on behalf of the author.

“Crossing” first appeared in The Paris Review, Issue 190, Fall 2009. Copyright © 2009 by Mark Slouka. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Never Come Back” first appeared in The Threepenny Review. Copyright © 2010 by Elizabeth Tallent. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Ice” first appeared in The American Scholar. Copyright © 2010 by Lily Tuck. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Alamo Plaza” first appeared in Ecotone. From Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives: Stories by Brad Watson. Copyright © 2010 by Brad Watson. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.