Siobhan Fallon is the author of You Know When the Men Are Gone (Amy Einhorn Books/Penguin). Her stories and essays have appeared in Publisher’s Weekly, Women’s Day, Good Housekeeping, New Letters, and Salamander, among others, and she is currently writing a monthly fiction series for Military Spouse Magazine.

Elyse Fenton is the author of Clamor, winner of the 2009 Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize. Her poetry and nonfiction have also appeared in such journals as Bat City Review, The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, The New York Times, and Salamander. In 2010, she received the University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize for Clamor.

Congratulations to Elaine Terranova, whose beautiful poem “Orphanage,” originally featured in Salamander 15.2, was chosen for inclusion in the 2012 edition of Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses, which is now available for purchase.

Contributor J. Robert Lennon’s story “Weber’s Head,” first featured in volume 15.2, is included in this year’s Best American Nonrequired Reading Anthology.

Molly Patterson’s story “Moving Fronts,” which first appeared in Volume 16.1 of Salamander, was chosen as one of the “Other Distinguished Stories of 2010″ by The Best American Short Stories of 2011 (edited by Geraldine Brooks).

You Know When the Men Are Gone, a collection of loosely interconnected stories by Salamander 14.2 contributor Siobhan Fallon, has been chosen as a “Best Pick for 2011″ by The New York Times’s Janet Maslin.

Allan Peterson, whose work appears in Salamander 17.1, has a fourth book, Fragile Acts forthcoming from McSweeney’s in June 2012 as the second book in their new McSweeney’s Poetry Series. He will also be reading at the Northwest Poet’s Concord, Newport, Oregon, May 6–8, 2012.

Welcome to our “Update at a glance,” where you’ll find the latest book news from our contributors as well as upcoming Salamander readings and events. We look forward to staying in touch with you.

- The Editors

Hester Kaplan, “The Aerialist”

Honorable Mention

Kelly Luce, “The Blue Demon of Ikumi”

Finalists

Michelle Regalado Deatrick, “The Second Coming of the STASSIS Goat”

B. D. Feil, “The Second Baseman”

Erica Plouffe Lazure, “Azimuth and Altitude”

Dwaine Rieves, “Leverage”

Waimea Williams, “What You Find and What You Keep”

Adam Sturtevant, “Before You Hurt Yourself”

J. Bowers, “The Mammoth Horse Waits”

Sam Katz, “When the Pearlmans Celebrated Christmas”

Timothy Mullaney, “Green Glass Doors”

Honorable Mention

Susan Magee, “The Mother”

Finalists

David Abrams, “Known Unknowns”

Allison Alsup, “Another Man’s Clothes”

Chad Anderson, “The Kelley St. Disappearances”

Emily Van Kley, “Old Machines”

Colette Sartor, “Dress Shoes”