Mary Helen Stefaniak

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Selected Works

Novel

A hidden history of the South emerges when a worldly teacher leads Threestep, GA, to reinvent itself, setting in motion events that lead to triumph and tragedy for a black teenager who happens to be the smartest person in Piedmont County, Georgia.

The Turk and My Mother

Hilarious and moving, a masterful debut novel about a Milwaukee immigrant family's secret history.

Short Fiction

Self Storage and Other Stories

In these nine stories, “the familiar world is both funnier and sadder than it seems.”

--Kalamazoo Gazette

A Different Plain

Short stories by Nebraska writers edited by Ladette Randolph, with an introduction by Mary Pipher

Creative Non-Fiction

In the Middle of the Middle West: Literary Nonfiction from the Heartland

A rich and comprehensive collection of literary writings about the Midwest.