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Joanna Pearson

Joanna Pearson is the author of a novel, BRIGHT AND TENDER DARK (Bloomsbury, 2024) an Indie Next Pick, an Amazon Editors’ Pick, and longlisted for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize, as well as two short story collections: NOW YOU KNOW IT ALL (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021) chosen by Edward P. Jones for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and EVERY HUMAN LOVE (Acre Books, 2019). Her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery and Suspense, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and many other places.

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Joanna Pearson

Oct 6, 2026

Everyone is an Object of Desire: A Conversation with Adam O’Fallon Price

All the stories in this collection are about people who want something, usually something ruinous. You really need desire for a story to work, usually on a material level and simultaneously on an emotional level. Tracking character desire is one…
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Joanna Pearson

Jan 20, 2026

Staying in the Light or Crossing the Threshold into Darkness: A Conversation with Melissa Faliveno

“I just wanted to write about these fun, spooky stories, and the way that stories become a part of a place, of the bearers and receivers of those stories, how their telling is a cycle and an inheritance. I also…

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