The Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national bestselling 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). AUTHOR: 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.