Alison Baker (writer)
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Alison Baker (born 1953 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American writer of short stories and essays.{{cite web |url=http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/introduction_literature/fiction/baker.htm |title=Experience Literature - Fiction |website=www.bedfordstmartins.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011125173902/http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/introduction_literature/fiction/baker.htm |archive-date=2001-11-25}}
Life
She graduated from Reed College and Indiana University with a Master of Library Science. She worked as a medical librarian and a library activist.
Her work has appeared in Shenandoah, the Atlantic Monthly, Story, Alaska Quarterly Review,{{Cite web|url=http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/aqr/back-issues/22_1and2.cfm|title=Alaska Quarterly Review - A Literary Magazine}} Orion Nature Quarterly, the Washington Post,{{cite news| url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/results.html?st=basic&uid=&MAC=50a23aa1f3f5c6104e90e36051420d61&QryTxt=%22Alison+Baker%22&x=6&y=11&sortby=RELEVANCE | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023065532/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/results.html?st=basic&uid=&MAC=50a23aa1f3f5c6104e90e36051420d61&QryTxt=%22Alison+Baker%22&x=6&y=11&sortby=RELEVANCE | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 23, 2012 | title=washingtonpost.com - search nation, world, technology and Washington area news archives}} Witness, ZYZZYVA.
She has written and recorded personal essays and commentaries for Jefferson Public Radio in Ashland, Oregon, and Outermost Community Radio in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
She was a Ragdale Foundation resident, a Fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a Fellow at the Norman Mailer Writers Center.
Awards
- 1992 George Garrett Fiction Award for "Field Notes"
- 1994 O. Henry Award
- the Gettysburg Review Award
- George Garrett Award for Fiction
- finalist for the National Magazine Award.
Works
- Happy Hour. Tickenoak Publications. 2013.
- {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/lovingwandabeave00alis| url-access=registration| quote=Alison Baker.| title=Loving Wanda Beaver: Novella and Stories| publisher=Chronicle Books| year=1997| isbn=978-0-8118-1788-2 }}
- {{cite book| title=How I Came West, and Why I Stayed| publisher=Chronicle Books | date=April 1, 1993| isbn=978-0-8118-0324-3 }}
=Anthologies=
- The Best American Short Stories 1993
- Best of the West
- New Stories From the South
- Pushcart Prize.t
References
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External links
- [http://www.alisonbaker.com/ "Author's website"] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220627082315/http://www.alisonbaker.com/ archived]
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Category:American short story writers