JENNIFER EGAN is the author of A Visit from the Goon Squad,The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus, and the story collection Emerald City.

HEIDI PITLOR is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She is the author of the novel The Birthdays and has a forthcoming novel titled We All Fall Down.

?The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.? ? Shelf Awareness for Readers

The Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, heralded by Time magazine as ?a new classic of American fiction.? Egan ?possesses a satirist's eye and a romance novelist's heart? (New York Times Book Review).