Steve Fox presents These Are My People in conversation with Allison Wyss

Award-winning writer Steve Fox returns with These Are My People, where some houses are dark, some are bright

and smell of busy kitchens, and some have rooms beyond a looking glass. People crash trucks and make snow angels and spill coff ee and buy pottery and self-starve and roam basements and day-drink at nursing homes and can smell broken love through brick walls and make apple pies for new neighbors. Whirling and wondrous, these stories show Fox at the peak of his powers.

Steve Fox is the winner of the Rick Bass Montana Prize for Fiction, the Zona Gale Award for Short Fiction, The Great Midwest Writing Contest, the Jade Ring Award, the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters Fiction Contest, and the Midwestern Gothic Summer Flash Contest. His fiction has appeared in New Ohio Review, MQR, Whitefish Review, and others. His short-story collection, Sometimes Creek, was published by Cornerstone Press in January 2023 and received the 2023 American Book Fest Best Book Award, was a finalist for the Chicago Writers Association 2023 Book of the Year Award, and long-listed for the Edna Ferber Award. His next story collection, These Are My People (Cornerstone Press), publishes December 2025. Steve lives in Wisconsin with his wife, three boys, and one dog. Find him at stevefoxwrites.com.

Allison Wyss is the author of the short story collection, Splendid Anatomies (Veliz Books), which was a finalist for the 2022 Shirley Jackson Award.

She has a thing about body modification, dismemberment and fairy tales. Her stories, essays, interviews, and reviews have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, Water~Stone Review, Atticus Review, monkeybicycle, Split Lip, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. Some of her ideas about the craft of fiction can be found in Reading Like a Writer, a monthly column she writes for the Loft Literary Center, where she also teaches classes.

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