Books
Coming Spring 2027
The Adjacent
Possible
Teresa Burns Gunther
Cover art to come
The Adjacent Possible
University of Wisconsin Press / Cornerstone
A new collection of stories, longlisted for the Dzanc Books Prize. Like much of Teresa's work, these stories live at the turning points in ordinary lives — the moments where people choose, or refuse, the step that changes everything.
Hold Off the Night
Truth Serum Press · Finalist, Orison & Hudson Book Prizes
Twelve stories of people composing a life — navigating change, salvaging relationships, and the longings we all recognize, complicated by class and faith, fear and loyalty.
"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 winner
Also in Anthology
Teresa's stories and essays appear in anthologies and collections alongside her own books.
Tulip Tree Publishing · 2022
Stories That Need to Be Told
Featured fiction.
Pure Slush · 2021
Growing Up & the LOVE Anthology
"Oh Brother" and selected nonfiction.
Hopewell Publications · 2012
Best New Writing 2012
Award-honored short fiction.
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