Author: Beth Sherman

  • The Shortlist for June 13, 2025

    The Shortlist for June 13, 2025

    Nonfiction by Melissa Witcher. Fiction by Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Beth Sherman, D.L. Stille, and Anaïs Godard

  • Natural by Beth Sherman

    Sherman’s strange, tender, and unsettling tale of grief, abandonment, and control only needs six words to draw you in. The taxidermist began stuffing her mother on a blindingly sunny morning in South Florida when the temperature was pushing triple digits. She knew it was all about looking natural.

  • The Shortlist: February 6, 2025

    The Shortlist: February 6, 2025

    Creative nonfiction by Abby Manzella. Short stories by Katy Goforth, Jisun Park, Mari Klein and Beth Sherman.

  • Blackhearts by Beth Sherman

    A child watches her mother struggle to adapt after her marriage falls apart. Sherman writes this story like a memoir, and I had to double check that it wasn’t. You have to be badass, she told me. Make them want what they can’t have. I was twelve.