Listen to this conversation with Marguerite Sheffer about her new short story collection, The Man in the Banana Trees.

Spanning the Gulf South to the far reaches of space, these inventive tales introduce us to teachers and ghosts, aliens and ice cream consultants, each grappling with the uncanny edge between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Tune in as we talk with Marguerite about blending the familiar with the fantastic, bending genres, and exploring the strange wonders that shape our lives.

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Marguerite Sheffer's collection, The Man in the Banana Trees, won the 2024 lowa Short Fiction Award, was named a "Best Debut Book of 2024" by Debutiful and a "Most Exciting Debut Story Collection" by Electric Literature and a finalist for the 2025 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction,  ...