Sheri Joseph teaches graduate and undergraduate fiction writing classes and serves as fiction editor of Five Points literary magazine. Her recently published novel, Stray, was awarded the Grub Street National Book Prize. Her cycle of stories, Bear Me Safely Over, was a Booksense 76 selection in both hardcover and paperback. “The Elixir,” a story included in Bear Me Safely Over, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals including The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Virginia Quarterly Review and Other Voices and in the anthologies Birds in the Hand (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux) and After O’Connor: Stories from Contemporary Georgia (University of Georgia Press). She has been awarded fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, The Kenyon Writers’ Workshop, the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers (in Scotland), the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo.

Selected Publications:

Stray. San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2007.
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Bear Me Safely Over. New York: Grove/Atlantic Press, 2002.
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