Bending the Map

Amber Caron is the author of the story collection Call Up the Waters (Milkweed Editions, 2023). Her stories and essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, PEN America Best Debut Short Stories, AGNI, Story, Bennington Review, Southwest Review, Longreads, The Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere. A recipient of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, Southwest Review’s McGinnis-Ritchie Award for fiction, and grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, she is assistant professor of English at Utah State University and a former assistant fiction editor of AGNI. (updated 9/2025)