Lyrical and semi-surreal, The Fifth Woman traces the ebbs and flows of a young woman’s life fractured by grief.

Nona Caspers is the author of Heavier Than Air, which was honored with the AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction from and listed as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Her work has been supported with a NEA Fellowship, an Iowa Review Fiction Award, a LAMBDA nomination, and the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Grant and Award, among other honors. Individual stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Epoch, Black Warrior Review and Glimmer Train. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University and lives in San Francisco.

Ants

Two Clean Things

The Dog

The Phone Call

The Gun

The Closet

Reception

The Cat

Weather

A Hat Shaped Like a Dog That Looked Like a Cat

Thinking

The Horse

The Fifth Woman

Pair of Sunfish

Sharks

Frontiers

Help

On the Roof

The Crack

The Ravine

Dandelions

Coast of Peru