![]() Yet Sneed’s collection was so strong and surprising that it stood out immediately, as all three of the judges agreed in naming it a finalist for that year’s award in first fiction. At the time, I was one of the judges for the LA Times Book Prizes in Fiction and First Fiction, and had been swamped with books. Henry Prize anthology-was my introduction to her work. ![]() Portraits of a Few People I’ve Made Cry is a dazzling collection and-though when it came out Sneed’s stories had been published in many excellent literary journals and included in Best American Short Stories and the O. Since then she has been both highly productive and consistently strong in her work, and it seems like she arrived at book publication already formed as a serious, accomplished artist. Christine Sneed has published four books of fiction, all since 2010, when her collection of short stories, Portraits of a Few People I’ve Made Cry, won the AWP’s Grace Paley Prize and was published by University of Massachusetts Press. ![]()
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