Shauntrelle

by Antonya Nelson

Online fiction from newyorker.com.

Short story about Constance, a newly divorced Houston woman, who moves into a temporary apartment with a roommate, Fanny Mann. Writer describes Constance meeting her new roommate, Fanny Mann, an older woman, bandaged from a recent rhinoplasty. Fanny gives Constance a tour of the apartment, and tells her about the…

14 pages, ebook

First published July 23, 2007

About the author

Antonya Nelson is the author of nine books of fiction, including Nothing Right and the novels Talking in Bed, Nobody’s Girl, and Living to Tell. Nelson’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, Redbook, and many other magazines, as well as in anthologies such as Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and The Best American Short Stories. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Grant, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and, recently, the United States Artists Simon Fellowship. She is married to the writer Robert Boswell and lives in New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas, where she holds the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.