Sarah Gerkensmeyer

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Sarah Gerkensmeyer’s story collection, What You Are Now Enjoying, was selected by Stewart O’Nan as winner of the 2012 Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, chosen as winner of Late Night Library’s Debut-litzer Prize, and granted an Indiana Authors Award. A finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction and the Italo Calvino Prize for Fabulist Fiction, Sarah is a Pen Parentis Fellow and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellow. 

Twitter: @sarahgerk

Stories

Cover Photo: Art by Anja Slibar for Catapult
The Collateral Recovery Business

She has taken back a vintage Pac Man pinball machine, gold teeth, and hair extensions. She has taken back virginity and faith in God. But can she take something back from the shadow of a woman she loved?