The freshest, most original new voices in American fiction today, selected by Tobias Wolff.

Culled from over one hundred prestigious writing programs around the United States and Canada, Best New American Voices 2000 offers a remarkable panoply of writing talent that showcases the literary stars of tomorrow. Included here are twenty of the finest stories to come out of such programs as Breadloaf, the Sewanee Conference, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the University of Iowa and the PEN/Prison Writing Committee, as nominated by the directors of those programs. Represented are all facets of North American life, a diverse collection of visions and voices that will satisfy the most exacting of short-story readers. This dynamic collection is must-reading for all fans of innovative, cutting-edge new writing.

About the Authors:

Tobias Wolff is a National Book Award finalist and has received the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography. He is the author of This Boy's Life, In Pharoah's Army, and The Night in Question.

John Kulka, a former bookseller, is at work on a novel and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Natalie Danford is a book critic whose work has appeared in the Boston Globe and the Washington Post, among other publications. She lives in New York City.