The Best American Short Stories 2002
# The Best American Short Stories 2002

The Best American Short Stories 2002, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Sue Miller.

## Short stories included

| Author | Story | Source |
| - | - | - |
| Michael Chabon | "Along the Frontage Road" | The New Yorker |
| Carolyn Cooke | "The Sugar-Tit" | Agni |
| Ann Cummins | "The Red Ant House" | McSweeney's |
| Edwige Danticat | "Seven" | The New Yorker |
| E.L. Doctorow | "A House on the Plains" | The New Yorker |
| Richard Ford | "Puppy" | The Southwest Review |
| Melissa Hardy | "The Heifer" | Descant |
| Karl Iagnemma | "Zilkowski's Theorem" | Zoetrope |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | "Nobody's Business" | The New Yorker |
| Beth Lordan | "Digging" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Alice Mattison | "In Case We're Separated" | Ploughshares |
| Jill McCorkle | "Billy Goats" | Bomb |
| Tom McNeal | "Watermelon Days" | Zoetrope |
| Leonard Michaels | "Nachman from Los Angeles" | The New Yorker |
| Arthur Miller | "Bulldog" | The New Yorker |
| Meg Mullins | "The Rug" | The New Yorker |
| Alice Munro | "Family Furnishings" | The New Yorker |
| Akhil Sharma | "Surrounded by Sleep" | The New Yorker |
| Jim Shepard | "Love and Hydrogen" | Harper's Magazine |
| Mary Yukari Waters | "Aftermath" | Manoa |

## Other notable stories

Among the other notable writers whose stories were among the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2001" were Ann Beattie, Dan Chaon, Stuart Dybek, Louise Erdrich, Joyce Carol Oates, Bob Shacochis, John Updike and the late Richard Yates.

