If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This (27 page)

About
the
Author

R
OBIN
B
LACK’S
stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including
One Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Bellevue Literary Review, The Southern Review
, and the anthology
The Best Creative Non-fiction
. She has received Special Mention from the Pushcart Prizes four times and a work of hers was a Notable Essay in
Best American Essays 2008
. The winner of numerous awards and a recipient of fellowships from the Leeway Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Sirenland Conference, Black is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She lives with her family in Philadelphia.

Copyright © 2010 by Robin Black
All rights reserved.

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ANDOM
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These stories originally appeared, in some cases in slightly different versions, in the following publications:

“The Guide,”
Indiana Review;
“If I Loved You” (as “A Fence Between
Our Homes”),
The Southern Review;
“Immortalizing John Parker,”
Freight Stories;
“Harriet Elliot,”
One Story;
“Gaining Ground,”
Alaska Quarterly Review;
“Tableau Vivant,”
The Georgia Review;
“Pine,”
Colorado Review;
“A Country Where You Once Lived,”
Hunger Mountain;
“… Divorced, Beheaded, Survived,”
Bellevue Literary
Review
and
The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review
(BLR Press, 2007).
A portion of “The History of the World” appeared in
The Double Dealer
as winner of the 2005 Pirate’s Alley Faulkner-Wisdom Writing Competition
in the Short Story Category and appeared in full in
Colorado Review
.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Black, Robin.
  If I loved you, I would tell you this: stories / Robin Black.
     p. cm.
  eISBN: 978-0-679-60368-9
   I. Title.
   PS3602.L32524214 2010
   813′.6—dc22   2009034839

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