Jill Birdsall’s stories can be read in literary magazines including Alaska Quarterly Review, Gargoyle, Iowa Review, Kansas Quarterly, Northwest Review, Southern Humanities Review and Story Quarterly. A graduate of Columbia University’s Writing Division, she was editor of that program’s literary journal, and has been a recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts grant […]
Jill Birdsall
Jill Birdsall Awarded Gertrude Stein Award
Jill Birdsall’s short story “Oker’s Pond,” part of her most recent collection, appears in Painted Bride Quarterly Print 6 as a part of Issue 85: Displacement, (which will be back-up online again shortly). We are pleased to announce that another story from the same collection has just been awarded first prize in the Gertrude Stein Award
Jill Birdsall: Oker’s Pond
At age thirty, Isaac Eldredge sailed south to find treasure in the Carolinas. His parents sent him for seeds to plant up north. It was the first and only time he’d left home. He visited merchants and shop owners. He bought rugs and vases and lamps. Then he found Dolly on her father’s farm. He […]