Baird Harper’s fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Tin House, StoryQuarterly and The Chicago Tribune, among other publications, and has been anthologized in NEW STORIES FROM THE MIDWEST, 2015; 40 YEARS OF CUTBANK, STORIES; and twice in BEST NEW AMERICAN VOICES. The recipient of the 2014 Raymond Carver Award for Short Fiction, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, and the James Jones Short Story Award, Harper lives in Oak Park with his wife and two kids, and he teaches creative writing at Loyola University and the University of Chicago. RED LIGHT RUN is his first novel.

Books by Baird Harper

Red Light Run: Linked Stories

by Baird Harper - Fiction, Short Stories

When two cars collide at an intersection in a leafy Chicago suburb, Hartley Nolan is not the person police expect to find behind the wheel. After all, he barely drinks; everyone knows it’s his wife who’s the alcoholic. But the bigger question on people’s minds is what brought Sonia Senn, dead at the scene, back to her hometown in such a hurry that night? In 11 tightly linked stories, RED LIGHT RUN pulls us into the inner lives of Hartley, Sonia and a host of other characters to untangle the mounting forces that carry them to their fates.