Richard Bausch is the author of numerous novels, including Playhouse, Thanksgiving Night, and Peace, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He has also published many story collections, including Something Is Out There and The Fate of Others (Knopf, 2025), which features six stories from Narrative, including the title story. He won the Rea Award for the Short Story, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and the Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. A devoted teacher, Bausch is a professor at Chapman University in Orange, California.
Photograph by Jebb Harris.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- A Local Habitation and a Name, a short story, in Spring 2024
- The Long Consequence, a short story, in Fall 2022
- Trigger Warnings, a short short, in Stories of the Week: 2020–2021
- Donnaiolo, a novella, in Spring 2021
- Isolation, a short story, in Spring 2020
- The Fate of Others, a short story, in Fall 2019
- In That Time, a short story, in Winter 2018
- Still Here, Still There, a short story, in Spring 2017
- Sympathy, a short story, in Winter 2017
- The Hotel Macabre, a short story, in Fall 2016
- Walking Distance, a short story, in Winter 2016
- Unknown, a short story, in Winter 2015
- In the Museum of the Americas, a short short, in Winter 2013
- Islands, a novel excerpt, in Winter 2012
- The Harp Department in Love, a short story, in Winter 2010
- Immigration, a short story, in Winter 2010
- Overcast, a short story, in Fall 2009
- Sam, poetry, in Fall 2009
- Peace, a review or criticism, in Spring 2009
- Reverend Thornhill’s Wife, a short story, in Winter 2009
- Letters to a Young Writer, a feature, in Winter 2009
- Blood, a short story, in Spring 2009
- Italy, a short story, in Spring 2008
- Sixty-five Million Years, a short story, in Winter 2007
- Byron the Lyron, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2010–2011