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Girl Talk

Alaska Quarterly Review (forthcoming)

Ghost Story

New England Review (forthcoming)

Young Ladies

Southern Humanities Review (forthcoming)

A History of Deans

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swamp pink (March 2026 / Issue 25)

Everything Must Go

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Washington Square Review (Spring 2025, Issue 53)

The Field

Mississippi Review (52.3 2025)
Awards: Chosen for THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY & SUSPENSE 2026

Voluntary

Colorado Review (52.1 Spring 2025)

The Invisible Lady

American Short Fiction (79 Spring 2024)

Fun Guy

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Blackbird (22.2 2024)

Wild Creatures

Literary Matters 16.1
Literary Matters (16.1)
Awards: Winner of the Meringoff Award in Fiction

Woman of the House

Story (Issue 17, Summer 2023)
Awards: Winner of the Story Foundation Prize

Theories of an Ancient Drawing Carved into a Hillside

Copper Nickel (No. 37, Fall 2023)
Awards: Copper Nickel Editors Prize
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News & Events

"The Field" chosen for BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE 2026, Ed. Megan Abbott

"The Field," originally published in Mississippi Review, has been chosen for inclusion in BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE 2026

https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/bestamericanseries

 

 

Interview with Colorado Review

https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/2025/07/a-conversation-with-becky-hagenston/

 

 

Friendly City Books Book Fest: August 16, 2025

Friendly City Books Possumtown Book Fest

https://www.friendlycitybooks.com/fest

 

 

 

 

 

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