Lee K. Abbott

Lee K. Abbott is the author of six collections of short fiction, including Wet Places at Noon, the St. Lawrence Award-winning The Heart Never Fits Its Wanting and the highly praised Love Is the Crooked Thing. He has twice won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, was awarded a Major Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council in 1991, and has taught at The Ohio State University since 1989. His many short stories and reviews, as well as articles on American Literature, have appeared in such journals and magazines as Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, The New York Times Book Review, The Southern Review, Epoch, Boulevard, and The North American Review. His fiction has been often reprinted in The Best American Short Stories and The Prize Stories: The O'Henry Awards. His latest collection of stories, All Things, All at Once: New & Selected Stories, was published by Norton in 2006.