Read Teresa’s Work

Featured Story

Wild Places

Alaska Quarterly Review

A story of family, landscape, and the wildness we carry inside us — a good first taste of the terrain Teresa's fiction loves to walk.

Selected Stories

Short fiction published in literary journals across the U.S. and beyond. Follow any title to read it where it lives.

Wild Places

Family, landscape, and what we inherit.

Alaska Quarterly Review

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Echo-Delta

A pilot, a marriage, and the distance between them.

New Ohio Review

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A Hard Man to Find

Longing and loyalty in a small life.

The Courtship of Winds

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War Paint

Winner, New Millennium Writings Award for Fiction.

New Millennium Writings

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Conflagration

Winner, Gemini Magazine Short Story Prize.

Gemini Magazine

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Game Day

A family gathers; the past will not sit still.

Litro Magazine

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Hear a Story Read Aloud

Sometimes a story lands differently in the ear. Press play for a reading in Teresa's own voice — a few minutes inside the work — and find more on her YouTube channel.

Echo Delta Ohio
Teresa Burns Gunther

Essays & Conversations

Nonfiction, criticism, and interviews with writers — including conversations with Dani Shapiro and Karen Joy Fowler.

A Conversation with Dani Shapiro

On craft, memory, and the writing life.

Lion's Roar

Donald Trump, Thank You?

A sharp, funny personal essay.

Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review

Writers Ask

Interviews on the craft of fiction.

Glimmer Train

On Place & Galleries

Writing on art and the city.

Culture Trip · Zyzzyva

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