The Best American Short Stories 2001, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Barbara Kingsolver.Kennison, Katrina and Kingsolver, Barbara(editors), The Best American Short Stories 2001, New York, 2001. Judging `best' short stories by mystery, truths, poetry, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Dec. 9 2001
Short stories included Author Story SourceAndrea Barrett "Servants of the Map" Salmagundi Rick Bass "The Fireman" The Kenyon Review Peter Ho Davies "Think of England" Ploughshares Claire Davis "Labors of the Heart" PloughsharesElizabeth Graver "The Mourning Door" Ploughshares Ha Jin "After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town" TriQuarterly Andrea Lee "Brothers and Sisters Around the World" The New Yorker Rick Moody "Boys" Elle Barbara Klein Moss "Rug Weaver" The Georgia Review Alice Munro "Post and Beam" The New Yorker Peter Orner "The Raft" The Atlantic Monthly Roy Parvin "Betty Hutton" Five Points Nancy Reisman "Illumination" Tin House Jess Row "The Secrets of Bats" Ploughshares Annette Sanford "Nobody Listens When I Talk" Descant Katherine Shonk "My Mother's Garden" Tin House Marisa Silver "What I Saw From Where I Stood" The New Yorker Trevanian "The Apple Tree" The Antioch Review John Updike "Personal Archeology" The New Yorker Dorothy West "My Baby..." Connecticut Review
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