Liza Ward

Liza Ward was born in New York City and holds degrees from Middlebury College and the University of Montana. She is the author of Outside Valentine. Her stories have been published in The Atlantic MonthlyThe Georgia Review, and Agni Review. They have also been selected for the 2004 O. Henry Prize Stories and Harcourt’s 2004 Best New American Voices collection. She lives in Massachusetts.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Short Stories 2018*

O Henry Prize Stories 2019

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