The Best American Short Stories 2001
# The Best American Short Stories 2001

The Best American Short Stories 2001, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Barbara Kingsolver.

## Short stories included

| Author | Story | Source |
| - | - | - |
| Andrea Barrett | "Servants of the Map" | Salmagundi |
| Rick Bass | "The Fireman" | The Kenyon Review |
| Peter Ho Davies | "Think of England" | Ploughshares |
| Claire Davis | "Labors of the Heart" | Ploughshares |
| Elizabeth Graver | "The Mourning Door" | Ploughshares |
| Ha Jin | "After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town" | TriQuarterly |
| Andrea Lee | "Brothers and Sisters Around the World" | The New Yorker |
| Rick Moody | "Boys" | Elle |
| Barbara Klein Moss | "Rug Weaver" | The Georgia Review |
| Alice Munro | "Post and Beam" | The New Yorker |
| Peter Orner | "The Raft" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Roy Parvin | "Betty Hutton" | Five Points |
| Nancy Reisman | "Illumination" | Tin House |
| Jess Row | "The Secrets of Bats" | Ploughshares |
| Annette Sanford | "Nobody Listens When I Talk" | Descant |
| Katherine Shonk | "My Mother's Garden" | Tin House |
| Marisa Silver | "What I Saw From Where I Stood" | The New Yorker |
| Trevanian | "The Apple Tree" | The Antioch Review |
| John Updike | "Personal Archeology" | The New Yorker |
| Dorothy West | "My Baby..." | Connecticut Review |
