Welcome.
Teresa Burns Gunther is an award-winning author whose fiction and nonfiction have appeared widely in U.S. and international literary journals and anthologies. Her story “Conflagration” won Gemini Magazine’s 2023 Short Story Prize, and “War Paint” won the 2022 New Millennium Award for Fiction. Her collection Hold Off the Night was published in 2023, and The Adjacent Possible is forthcoming from University of Wisconsin Cornerstone Press in 2027.
She is also the founder of Lakeshore Writers Workshop, where she teaches, coaches writers, and offers developmental editing.
COMING 2027
The Adjacent Possible
A new collection of stories by Teresa Burns Gunther from the University of Wisconsin Press / Cornerstone, longlisted for the Dzanc Books Prize.
Hold Off The Night
A FINALIST FOR THE ORISON BOOK PRIZE & THE HUDSON BOOK PRIZE
“Exquisite writing and [a] bold, piercing look at domestic life, work life, love, and family…a lot to say and a brilliant way of saying it.”
– ELLEN SUSSMAN, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FRENCH LESSONS
“A paean to the small miracles of ordinary life.”
– LOUISE MARBURG, AUTHOR OF YOU HAVE REACHED YOUR DESTINATION
“A collection of family stories – motherhood, fatherhood, childhood – powerfully rendered with all their jagged, cutting edges. In story after beautiful story, Teresa Burns Gunther shows us how love must be enough, even when it isn’t.”
– KAREN JOY FOWLER, PEN FAULKNER AWARD WINNER, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
Hold Off the Night’s twelve stories find people wrestling with the difficulties inherent in composing a life, navigating change, and salvaging relationships, complicated by class and faith, fear and loyalty, and longings that resonate with the broader human experience. Published in May 2023 by Truth Serum Press.
Explore My Work
I’m a writer. A painter, a voracious reader, a dancer, a gardener, a photographer, a fledgling birdwatcher, and an activist who also shakes up a kick-ass martini. My continuing passion, to borrow a phrase from Eudora Welty, is to understand how we keep on keeping on in the face of all of it — and to help other writers do the same.
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