| About the Author Khanh Ha is the author of Flesh, The Demon Who Peddled Longing, and Mrs. Rossi’s Dream. He is a seven-time Pushcart nominee, finalist for The Ohio State University Fiction Collection Prize, Mary McCarthy Prize, Many Voices Project, Prairie Schooner Book Prize, and The University of New Orleans Press Lab Prize. He is the recipient of the Sand Hills Prize for Best Fiction, the Robert Watson Literary Prize in Fiction, The Orison Anthology Award for Fiction, The James Knudsen Prize for Fiction, The C&R Press Fiction Prize, and The EastOver Fiction Prize. Mrs. Rossi’s Dream was named Best New Book by Booklist and a 2019 Foreword Reviews INDIES Silver Winner and Bronze Winner. |
| Awards Short Stories Award-Winner Night, This River (James Knudsen Prize for Fiction) Heartbreak Grass (Robert Watson Literary Prize in Fiction) The Woman-Child (Orison Anthology Award for Fiction) The Scent of Apples (The Sand Hills Prize for Best Fiction) |
| Best Indie Lit Nominee The Quest (Printer’s Devil Review) Book Prizes C & R Press Fiction Prize EastOver Fiction Prize Foreword Reviews INDIES Silver Winner and Bronze Winner Finalist for the Mary McCarthy Prize, Many Voices Project, Prairie Schooner Book Prize, The University of New Orleans Press Lab Prize, The William Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Award, The Ohio State University in Short Fiction |
| Pushcart Nominee A Silent Lullaby (Red Savina Review) The Blue-Ghost Fireflies (Red Savina Review) Run River Run (Yellow Medicine Review) Diary of a Mute Girl (Solstice Journal) The Drifter’s Final Destination (Provo Canyon Review) The Yin-Yang Market (Lunch Ticket) The Orphan Child (Roundabout Press) |
| Others Mrs. Rossi’s Dream Audio Book Destination Unknown (Cutleaf Journal) Diary of a Mute Girl (novel excerpt) (Solstice Journal) A Bridge Behind (Eastlit) The Eunuch’s Daughter (Poydras Review) All the Rivers Flow into the Sea (Thrice Fiction) The Leper Colony (Thrice Fiction) The Sandpiper’s Tracks (Writing Tomorrow) The Woman on the Plain (Cigale Literary Magazine) The Name of Sorrow (Ducts) A Yellow Rose for the Sinner (Red Savina Review) The Devil’s Mask (Squawk Back) The Red Fox (Zymbol) The Dream Catcher (ARDOR) Of Dust and Butterfly (Glint Literary Journal) The General Is Sleeping (Red Earth Review) Another Realm (Military Experience & The Arts) Twelve Human Spleens (Military Experience & The Arts) The Children of Icarus (Mount Hope) Red Rose, Yellow Rose (Saint Ann’s Review) Softly Come Her Steps (The Literary Yard) Thy Name Is Death (Underground Voices) A Far Place Called Home (Waccamaw Journal) The Lady of Dien Bien Phu and the Senegalese Giant (Waccamaw Journal) The Orphan Child (Artful Dodge; reprint in Belletrist Journal) The Remains of Her Son (Crack the Spine) The Virgin’s Mole (Drunk Monkeys) The Afterworld of Samuel Rossi (Long Story Magazine) A Mother’s Tale (Louisiana Literature) The Snake Catcher’s Son (Mobius) The River of White Water Lilies (Moon City Press) Mrs. Rossi’s Dream (Ocotillo Review) The Drifter, The Hooker, and The Girl Photographer (Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine) The American Prisoner (Permafrost Magazine; reprint in The Missing Slate) One Wish (Quarterly Literary Review Singapore) The Bones of Her Son (Seven Circles Press) The Red-Devil Tattoo (StorySouth) Mother (Sugar Mule) Love Is a Souvenir (FRiGG Magazine) Size-Twelve Boots (Viet National Magazine) The Woman in the U Minh Forest (The Sea Letter) Sleeping Beauty (Verdad) All the Pretty Little Horses (The Museum of Americana) Moths to the Flame (Cagibi) The Yin World of Love (Superstition Review) The Weaver of Dien Bien Phu (Evening Street Press) Black Shoes (The Opiate) The Silence of Knowing (TAYO Literary Magazine) Of Bones and Lust (The Missing Slate) A Mute Girl’s Yarn (Blue Mesa Review) |
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