Tania Hershman

Tania Hershman is the author of two story collections: My Mother Was an Upright Piano: Fictions (Tangent Books, 2012), a collection of fifty-six very short fictions, and The White Road and Other Stories (Salt, 2008; commended, 2009 Orange Award for New Writers). Tania’s short stories and poetry are published or forthcoming in, among others, Five Dials, The Stinging Fly, Tears in the Fence, PANK Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly, The London Magazine, and New Scientist, and on BBC Radio. She is writer-in-residence in Bristol University’s Science Faculty and editor of The Short Review, the online journal spotlighting short story collections and their authors. www.taniahershman.com