The Best American Short Stories 1995
# The Best American Short Stories 1995

The Best American Short Stories 1995, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor Jane Smiley.

## Short stories included

| Author | Story | Source |
| - | - | - |
| Daniel Orozco | "Orientation" | The Seattle Review |
| Thom Jones | "Way down Deep in the Jungle" | The New Yorker |
| Ellen Gilchrist | "The Stucco House" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Jaimy Gordon | "A Night's Work" | The Michigan Quarterly Review |
| Avner Mandelbaum | "Pity" | Zyzzyva |
| Steven Polansky | "Leg" | The New Yorker |
| Peter Ho Davies | "The Ugliest House in the World" | The Antioch Review |
| Gish Jen | "Birthmates" | Ploughshares |
| Edward J. Delaney | "The Drowning" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Joy Williams | "Honored Guest" | Harper's Magazine |
| Andrea Barrett | "The Behavior of the Hawkweeds" | The Missouri Review |
| Andrew Cozine | "Hand Jive" | The Iowa Review |
| Stephen Dobyns | "So I Guess You Know What I Told Him" | Ploughshares |
| Jennifer C. Cornell | "Undertow" | New England Review |
| Kate Braverman | "Pagan Night" | Zyzzyva |
| Melanie Rae Thon | "First, Body" | Anteus |
| Don DeLillo | "The Angel Esmeralda" | Esquire |
| Edward Falco | "The Artist" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Max Garland | "Chiromancy" | The New England Review |
| Jamaica Kincaid | "Xuela" | The New Yorker |
