Ian Stansel
Ian Stansel’s work has appeared in the Antioch Review, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere, and received an honorable mention in Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was the recipient of an Iowa Arts Fellowship, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Houston. He is a fiction editor for Gulf Coast.
Articles
- A Dry Season
I felt sick in my stomach. The radio was dead quiet in the corner. My mother kept her green eyes on me, waiting for me to say what she hoped I couldn’t.

