Leigh Newman’s story collection NOBODY GETS OUT ALIVE is forthcoming in April 2022 from Scribner. Her memoir about growing up in Alaska, STILL POINTS NORTH was a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard prize. Her stories have appeared in Harper’s,The Paris Review, One Story, Tin House, Electric Literature and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and have been awarded the Pushcart and the American Society of Magazine Editor's fiction prizes, as well as selected for Best American Short Stories anthology. In 2020, she received f the Paris Review’s Terry Southern Prize for “humor, wit, and sprezzatura.”