Abby Frucht is the author of two short story collections, Fruit of the Month, for which she received the Iowa Short Fiction Prize in 1987, and The Bell at the End of a Rope (Narrative Library, 2012). She has also written six novels: Snap; Licorice; Are You Mine?; Life before Death; Polly’s Ghost; and A Well Made Bed (Red Hen Press, 2016), which she wrote with her colleague Laurie Alberts. Frucht has taught for more than twenty years at Vermont College of Fine Arts and serves as a mentor to the writers of the Afghan Women’s Writers Project. She lives in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Photograph by John Iwata.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Crazing of the Lagniappe, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2014–2015
- Choir Practice, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2012–2013
- Bride, a novel excerpt, in Winter 2010
- Best Advice, a feature, in Fall 2010
- Flagstaff, Arizona, a readers' narrative, in Summer 2008
- Rehearsals, a short story, in Fall 2005
- Is Glistening, a short story, in Fall 2007