“The stories in Joan Corwin’s Hindsight are dazzling.”
— Barbara Shoup, author of An American Tune and Looking for Jack Kerouac
Coming April 5, 2025
Hindsight
and other stories
“I take point with these guys on an interstate job hitting a truckload of electronics . . .”
With these words, the first story in this inaugural anthology by Joan Corwin casts the reader into the first of many wildly diverse worlds. Spanning both time and continent, the stories in Hindsight immerse us in the lives of characters so rich and fully realized that their voices will continue to resound in the reader’s mind for many years to come.
What People Are Saying
“Fierce, elegant, and unflinching.”
— Elizabeth Wetmore, New York Times bestselling author of Valentine
“This important debut asks questions that will surprise and delight you.”
— Paula Peterson, author of Penitent, with Roses: An HIV Mother Reflects and Women in the Grove: Stories
“Sublime.”
— Ellen Wade Beals, editor of Solace in So Many Words
About Joan Corwin
Before turning to full-time fiction writing, Joan Corwin taught literature and Victorian social history at Chicago-area colleges and universities. Among the awards she has received for her work are the Dana Portfolio Award, the Press 53 Open Award (Novella category), the Chris O’Malley Prize in Fiction and the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction Prize. Her short story Hindsight was a Chicago Public Radio “Stories on Stage” winner. Her fiction has appeared in a number of literary journals such as StoryQuarterly, Sycamore Review, and The Madison Review, as well as the anthologies Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters; Solace in So Many Words; (AFTER)Life: Poems and Stories of the Dead, and Signs of Life: Contemporary Jewelry Art & Literature. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and their two dogs.
Author photo by Kimberly Kingen
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