Becky Hagenston

Becky Hagenston is the author of three award-winning story collections. Scavengers, winner of the Permafrost Prize, was published in 2016 by University of Alaska Press; Strange Weather received the Spokane Prize and was published by Press 53; A Gram of Mars won Sarabande Books' Mary McCarthy Prize. She's an associate professor of English at Mississippi State University. She was first published in Shenandoah in 1994.
Reading List
Hematite, Apatite
The principal leaned across his desk at Jennifer and cleared his throat. He was a small man with small hands, and these hands, she noticed now, were trembling. “It has come to my attention,” he said, “that there have been …