The Best American Short Stories 1994
# The Best American Short Stories 1994

The Best American Short Stories 1994, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Tobias Wolff.

## Short stories included

| Author | Story | Source |
| - | - | - |
| Sherman Alexie | "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" | Esquire |
| Carol Anshaw | "Hammam" | Story |
| Robert Olen Butler | "Salem" | Mississippi Review |
| Lan Samantha Chang | "Pipa's Story" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Ann Cummins | "Where I Work" | Room of One's Own |
| Alice Elliott Dark | "In the Gloaming" | The New Yorker |
| Stuart Dybek | "We Didn't" | Antaeus |
| Tony Earley | "The Prophet from Jupiter" | Harper's Magazine |
| Carolyn Ferrell | "Proper Library" | Ploughshares |
| John Rolfe Gardiner | "The Voyage Out" | The New Yorker |
| David Gates | "The Mail Lady" | Grand Street |
| Barry Hannah | "Nicodemus Bluff" | The Carolina Quarterly |
| Thom Jones | "Cold Snap" | The New Yorker |
| John Keeble | "The Chasm" | Prairie Schooner |
| Nancy Krusoe | "Landscape and Dream" | The Georgia Review |
| Laura Glen Louis | "Fur" | Ploughshares |
| Chris Offutt | "Melungeons" | Story |
| Roxana Robinson | "Mr. Sumarsono" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Jim Shepard | "Battling Against Castro" | The Paris Review |
| Christopher Tilghman | "Things Left Undone" | The Southern Review |
| Jonathan Wilson | "From Shanghai" | Ploughshares |
