C. Ryan Hyde

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Forty of her short stories have been published in Bottomfish, The Illinois Review, Aura, Hayden's Ferry Review, Pearl, South Dakota Review, Vignette, The Amherst Review, Descant, Eureka Literary Magazine, The Crescent Review, The Laurel Review, Literal Latte, River Styx, High Plains Literary Review, Bellingham Review, Pangolin Papers, Red Cedar Review, The Antioch Review, Puerto del Sol, Quarterly West, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review and other journals, and in the anthologies Santa Barbara Stories (John Daniel & Co., Fall 1998) and California Shorts (Heyday Books, Spring 1999). She has stories forthcoming in The Worcester Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Manoa, New Letters and Ploughshares.

Two of her stories have been honored in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, "Love is Always Running Away" in 1994 and "Dante" in 1996. Her story "Red Texas Sky" was nominated for Best American Short Stories, the O'Henry Award, and a Pushcart Prize, and her story "Wednesday Man" was also nominated for Pushcart Prize XXII. She had six stories in consideration for Pushcart Prize XXIV: "The Last Younger Man," nominated by Eureka Literary Magazine; "Five Singing Gardeners and One Dead Stranger," nominated by Literal Latte; and four stories from "Earthquake Weather," nominated by Russian Hill Press. She received second place in the 1997 Bellingham Review Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction for "Breakage," an excerpt from her novel "Turtle Park." Her story "Castration Humor" was cited as one of the 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 1998 in Best American Short Stories 1999. Her story "Requiem for a Flamer" has been nominated for this year's Pushcart Prize by Quarterly West. She has served on the administrative staff of the Santa Barbara Writers' Conference, the 1998 fiction fellowship panel of the Arizona Commission on the arts, and on the editorial staff of the Santa Barbara Review. Each fall she teaches fiction workshops at the Cuesta College Writers' Conference. She currently writes full-time

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