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Leigh Newman

Biography

Leigh Newman

Leigh Newman is the author of STILL POINTS NORTH, a memoir about growing up in Alaska, which was a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard Prize. Her stories have appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Tin House, McSweeny’s Quarterly Concern, One Story and Electric Literature. In 2020, she was awarded The Paris Review’s Terry Southern Prize, a Best American Short Story, a Pushcart Prize, and an American Society of Magazine Editors’ Fiction Prize for her work in The Paris Review.

Leigh Newman

Books by Leigh Newman

Nobody Gets Out Alive: Stories
by Leigh Newman - Fiction, Short Stories

Set in Leigh Newman’s home state of Alaska, NOBODY GETS OUT ALIVE is a collection of dazzling, courageous stories about women struggling to survive not just grizzly bears and charging moose but the raw, exhausting legacy of their marriages and families. In “Howl Palace” --- winner of The Paris Review’s Terry Southern Prize, a Best American Short Story, and Pushcart Prize selection --- an aging widow struggles with a rogue hunting dog and the memories of her five ex-husbands while selling her house after bankruptcy. In the title story, “Nobody Gets Out Alive,” newly married Katrina visits her hometown of Anchorage and blows up her own wedding reception by flirting with the host and running off with an enormous mastodon tusk.