THE O. HENRY PRIZE STORY WINNERS FOR 2015

Percival Everett

Finding Billy White Feather, Virginia Quarterly Review



Lydia Davis

The Seals, The Paris Review



Lionel Shriver

Kilifi Creek, The New Yorker



Manuel Muñoz

The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA, Glimmer Train



Russell Banks

A Permanent Member of the Family, Conjunctions



Dina Nayeri

A Ride Out of Phrao, Alaska Quarterly Review



Emily Ruskovich

Owl, One Story



Becky Hagenston

The Upside-Down World, Subtropics



Lynn Freed

The Way Things Are Going, Harper’s



Brenda Peynado

The History of Happiness, Cimarron Review



Naira Kuzmich

The Kingsley Drive Chorus, Salamander



Emma Torzs

Word of Mouth, The Three Penny Review



Christopher Merkner

Cabins, Subtropics



Molly Antopol

My Grandmother Tells Me This Story, Ecotone



Lynne Sharon Schwartz

The Golden Rule, Fifth Wednesday Journal



Joan Silber

About My Aunt, Tin House



Thomas Pierce

Ba Baboon, The New Yorker



Elizabeth Strout

Snow Blind, Virginia Quarterly Review



Vauhini Vara

I, Buffalo, Tin House



Elizabeth McCracken

Birdsong From the Radio, Zoetrope: All-Story