Elizabeth Graver

Short Fiction in Periodicals 

• “Numbers 1 2 3 4” Hayden’s Ferry Review (#50, Spring/Summer 2012): 1-2.
• “The Mourning Door”  Ploughshares, Vol. 26 #2 & 3, Gish Jen, guest ed. (Summer, 2000): 80-89.  Reprinted at GreatJonesStreet
• “Surtsey.”  Doubletake (Summer 2000): 92-98.
• “Three Mothers”  Boston Review (April, May, 1994).
• “Touch and Go”  Story (Autumn, 1999): 42-49.
• “Dream of the Stolen Skirt” Fiction, Vol.14, #2 (Summer 1997): 213-214.
• “A Place Not Here”  Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose, Issue 27: (Fall 1996): 141-149.
• “Vines and Other Climbing Plants” Story  (Summer 1996): 12-24.
• “Halogen.” Glimmer Train, Issue 16 (Fall 1995): 69-86.
• “What Kind of Boy.”  Southwest Review, Vol. 80, #2 & 3  (Spring/ Summer 1995): 260-271.
• “Scavenger Bird.” Ploughshares, Vol. 21, No. 1, Gary Soto, guest ed. (Spring,1995): 94-108.
• “Between”  Story (Autumn 1994): 44-55.
• “Have You Seen Me?”  Antaeus 67 (Autumn 1991): 20-33.
• “The Counting Game”  Seventeen (October 1991): 112-124.
• “The Blue Hour”  Prism International 29, 2 (January 1991): 63-73.
• “The Boy Who Fell Forty Feet”  Stanford Humanities Review (Winter 1991).
• “Yellow Tent”  Southwest Review 75, I (Autumn 1990): 539-551.
• “The Skyscrapers” River Styx 31 (Summer 1990): 14-17.
• “The Body Shop”  Southern Review 26 (April 1990):  436-448.
• “Square Dance”  Story (Autumn 1990): 25-35.

Short Fiction in Anthologies

         “The Mourning Door”

• Best American Short Stories 2001, Barbara Kingsolver, guest ed.,  Katrina Kenison, ed. (Houghton Mifflin, 2001).   85-97.
• Prize Stories 2001: The O. Henry Awards, Guest Editors: Mary Gordon, Michael Chabon, Mona Simpson; series editor, Larry Dark, (Anchor/Doubleday).  191-199.
• Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses, Bill Henderson, ed. (Pushcart Press, 2002). 256-265.
• Behind the Short Story: From First to Final Draft, Todd Pierce and Ryan Van Cleave, eds., (Allyn & Bacon/Longman, 2005).
• Before: Stories of Pregnancy from Our Top Writers, Ed. Emily Franklin (Overlook Press, 2006): 63-72.

“Have You Seen Me?”

• 20: Best of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, John Edgar Wideman, ed. (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2001):  210-225.
• Sacred Ground: Writings About Home, Barbara Bonner, ed. (Milkweed Editions:  1996): 150-166.

“Surtsey”

• Passing the Word: Writers on their Mentors, Jeffrey Skinner, Lee Martin, eds.  (Sarabande Books, 2001). 131-152.

“Islands Without Names”

• American Fiction, Vol. 9, A. Davis, M. White, eds. (New Rivers Press: 1997): 23-35.  Story chosen by Joyce Carol Oates.

“A Place Not There”

• Best Underground Fiction, Scott Miles, ed. (Stolen Time Publishing, 2006), Eds. Scott Miles and Jeff Mikos.  198-211.

“What Kind of Boy”

• An Intricate Weave: Women Write About Girls and Girlhood, Marlene Miller, ed. (Iris Editions: 1997): 184-196.
• Lost On Purpose: Women in the City, Amy Prior, ed. (Seal Press/Avalon Books, 2004). 153-166.

“Mammals”

• Chick-Lit 2:  New Women’s Fiction Anthology, C. Mazza, J. DeShell, E. Sheffield, eds. (Fiction Collective 2: 1996): 106-113.

“Between”

• Strictly Casual: Fiction By Women On Love, Amy Prior, ed. (Serpent’s Tail, UK: 2003): 1-19.
• Inappropriate Random: Stories on Sex and Love, Amy Prior, ed. (Seal Press, New York, 2003). 1-22.
• Prize Stories 1996: The O. Henry Awards, William Abrahams, ed. (Anchor/Doubleday: 1996): 285-300.
• Adult Development and Learning: Multicultural Stories, S. Merriam and L. Baumgartner, eds. (Kreiger: 1999): 129-141.
• “The Boy Who Fell Forty Feet”  Prize Stories 1994: The O. Henry Awards (Anchor/Doubleday: 1994): 216-228.
• “Three Mothers”  Writers Harvest, William Shore, ed. (Harcourt Brace: 1994):  265-268.

“The Body Shop”

• Best American Short Stories, 1991  (Houghton Mifflin: 1991): 194-208. Selected by Alice Adams.

“Square Dance”

• Street Songs I: New Voices in Fiction, Jane Hill, ed. (Longstreet Press: 1990): 78-96.