2009 Indiana Review Fiction Prize Results
Final Judge: Ron Carlson

Ron Carlson currently serves as the director of the MFA program in fiction at UC Irvine. He has published four short story collections, threenovels, including the recently praised Five Skies (Viking). Carlson’s short stories have been anthologized in dozens of collections, including The Best American Short Stories, The O’Henry Prize Series, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. He has been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares, and a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award.

2009 Indiana Review
Fiction Prize Winner

“Efendim”
Rolf Yngve
Coronado, CA

Runners-Up “Shuttle” Roger Sheffer North Mankato, MN "The Runciter Project" Jeff P. Jones, Moscow, ID Finalists
“The King of Saying the Wrong Thing” Tara Cottrell Wright Menlo Park, CA	“The New Baby” Mark Holden Plattsburg, NY
“Errata” Rande Daykin Galesville, WI	“Bounty” Amy Lisabeth Minton San Antonio, TX
“Rita” Betsy Denson Houston, TX	“Daycare” Stace Budzko Boston, MA