Clifford Garstang
Clifford Garstang is author of What the Zhang Boys Know, winner of the 2013 Library of Virginia Award for Fiction, and the short-story collection In an Uncharted Country. He is also the editor of Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet, volumes I and II, anthologies of stories set around the world. His work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Blackbird, Cream City Review, Los Angeles Review, Shenandoah, Tampa Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere, and has received Distinguished Mention in the Best American Series. In 2015, he received the Indiana Emerging Author Award from the Indianapolis Public Library Foundation. A former Peace Corps volunteer and international lawyer, Garstang earned an MFA in fiction from Queens University of Charlotte. He lives near Staunton, VA.
7 entries by Clifford Garstang
Growing Things and Other Stories
By Paul Tremblay
Ambiguity and terror reign in this creepy, satisfying collection.
Happy Dreams
By Jia Pingwa; translated by Nicky Harman
A naive idealist hopes to make it in big-city China.
Village
By Stanley Crawford
This story of a community’s resistance to the government is both charming and timely, if somewhat bloated with characters.
Eveningland
By Michael Knight
A deeply satisfying collection of tales chronicling the demise of the Old South.
Happy Dreams: A Novel
By Jia Pingwa; translated by Nicky Harman
A naive idealist hopes to make it in big-city China.
Village: A Novel
By Stanley Crawford
This story of a community’s resistance to the government is both charming and timely, if somewhat bloated with characters.
Eveningland: Stories
By Michael Knight
A deeply satisfying collection of tales chronicling the demise of the Old South.