Let Me Out Here: Stories

Emily W. Pease is at work redefining the short story. This revealing collection offers a deep empathy for people doing the best they can, despite themselves. With Let Me Out Here, Pease joins the ranks of Mary Gaitskill, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Kelly Link, and adds to their tradition a singular style and a voice as darkly funny as it is exacting. Pease is the winner of the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, an award of $10,000 to Southern short story writers. She is a known quantity in the Southern short story scene. Hers is a fresh new voice in literary fiction.A native of Charlotte, NC, Pease received her MFA in Writing from Warren Wilson College. Her stories have appeared in the Missouri Review , the Georgia Review, Shenandoah , Crazyhorse, the Alaska Quarterly Review, and Narrative.