William Pei Shih’s stories have been published in The Best American Short Stories 2020, The Georgia Review, Ursa Short Fiction, VQR, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Southern Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Boston Review, Crazyhorse, F(r)iction, Catapult, The Asian American Literary Review, The Des Moines Register, The Masters Review, Reed Magazine, Carve Magazine, Hyphen, and elsewhere. Longreads included his story "Happy Family" on its list of Ten Outstanding Stories to Read in 2023. His stories have been recognized by the John Steinbeck Award in Fiction, the Flannery O’Connor Award in Short Fiction, the Raymond Carver Short Story Award, the UK Bridport Prize, The London Magazine Short Story Award, the Granum Prize, among others. His stories have been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (MFA in Fiction), he was a recipient of the Dean’s Graduate Fellowship. He currently lives in New York City and teaches at NYU.
