International Fiction Prize

Birds Of America

Birds Of America

Lorrie Moore

A native of New York state, Lorrie Moore attended St Lawrence University and Cornell University. She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She is the author of two other short story collections, Self-Help and Life-Like, and two novels, Anagrams and Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories and many other publications.

Birds of America is published by Faber

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