which  American memoirist  selects Hayden's story collection for  republication
Cheryl Strayed
Title: Alicia Appleman-Jurman
Passage: Alicia Appleman-Jurman (May 9, 1930 – April 8, 2017), also known as Alicia Ada Appleman, was a Polish-born Israeli–American memoirist, born in Rosulna, Poland (present-day Rosilna, Ukraine), who has written and spoken about her experiences of the Holocaust in her autobiography, Alicia: My Story.
Title: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Passage: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank is a 2012 short story collection by the American writer Nathan Englander.  It was first published on February 7, 2012 through Knopf and collects eight of Englander's short stories, including the title story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank."  The title of the collection takes influence from Raymond Carver's 1981 short story collection "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love."  It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, losing to Adam Johnson's "The Orphan Master's Son".  Englander's collection was awarded the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
Title: Cheryl Strayed
Passage: Cheryl Strayed ( ; née Nyland; born September 17, 1968) is an American memoirist, novelist, essayist and podcast host.  The author of four books, her award-winning writing has been published widely in national magazines and anthologies.
Title: Courtney Angela Brkic
Passage: Courtney Angela Brkic (born 1972) is a Croatian American memoirist, short story writer, and academic.
Title: Emily Susan Rapp
Passage: Emily Rapp Black (born July 12, 1974) is an American memoirist.  When she was six years old, she was chosen as the poster child for the March of Dimes, due to a congenital birth defect that resulted in the amputation of her leg.  s of 2013 , she has written two memoirs, one that presents her life as an amputee and the other that tells the story of the birth of her child Ronan Christopher Louis and his diagnosis of Tay-Sachs disease.  She is a former Fulbright scholar and recipient of the James A. Michener Fellowship.  She is an assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside, School of Medicine.
Title: Mary Ballou
Passage: Mary Ballou (1809–94) was an American memoirist most notable for her collection of letters, "I Hear the Hogs in My Kitchen."  Written in 1852, they were later published in 1962.  Ballou's writing gave personal insight into the life of an American pioneer.  With her husband, Ballou left her New Hampshire home for California, not in search of gold to be mined, but money to be made off those doing the mining.  The Ballous ran a lucrative boarding house in Negro Bar, California.  Her letters describe the antics of the miners she housed, as well as the unique experience of being a woman during the California Gold Rush.
Title: Sandhya Bhraman
Passage: Sandhya Bhraman ("Evening Walk") is a short story collection by Bhabendra Nath Saikia.  It was the last collection of Saikia's short story collection in his lifetime.  It was first published in 1998.  The stories those were included in the book are:
Title: Julie Hayden
Passage: Julie Hayden (1938/39 — September 14, 1981) was an American short story writer and staff member at "The New Yorker" magazine.  In 1976, Viking Press published her only collection of short stories, "The Lists of the Past".  "Day-Old Baby Rats" is one of her famous stories, which was chosen and read in 2010 by writer Lorrie Moore on "The New Yorker" podcast with fiction editor Deborah Treisman.  Hayden's story collection was selected by bestselling author Cheryl Strayed for republication with Pharos Editions out of Seattle, and was published in May 2014.
Title: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Passage: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh (born 1968) is an American memoirist, playwright and fiction writer living in New York City.  He won a 2010 Whiting Award for his memoir, "When Skateboards Will Be Free".  His short-story collection, "Brief Encounters With the Enemy," was short-listed for the 2014 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut fiction.  He serves on the board of directors for the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Title: Roxane Gay
Passage: Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and commentator.  She is the author of "The New York Times" best-selling essay collection "Bad Feminist" (2014), as well as the short story collection "Ayiti" (2011), the novel "An Untamed State" (2014), the short story collection "Difficult Women" (2017), and the memoir "Hunger" (2017).
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