Becky Hagenston | Blackbird v15n2 | The Seven Ravens

Becky Hagenston is the author of three short story collections: Scavengers (University of Alaska Press, 2016), which won the 2015 Permafrost Book Prize in Fiction; Strange Weather (Press 53, 2010), which won the 2009 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction; and A Gram of Mars (Sarabande Books, 1998), which won the 1997 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review , One Teen Story , Crazyhorse , Subtropics , and elsewhere. Twice the recipient of an O. Henry Prize (1996 and 2015), she is an associate professor of English at Mississippi State University.