Short stories by Kathleen Alcott

Born in 1988 in Northern California, Kathleen Alcott is the author of the novels America Was Hard to Find, Infinite Home _ and The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets. _Her short fiction, criticism, memoir, and food writing have appeared in outlets including Zoetrope: All Story, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, ZYZZYVA, Tin House, and ELLE. In 2019, her short fiction was anthologized in the _Best American Short Stories. _In 2017, her short story "Reputation Management" was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award; in 2019 “Natural Light” was longlisted. A fellow of the MacDowell Colony, she has taught at Columbia University at Bennington College. She lives between New York and California.

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A young woman stumbles upon an explicit photograph of her now-deceased mother hung in a museum. She tracks down the photographer looking for answers she may not care to find.