Introducing the Oxford American's fiction issue! The magazine includes short stories by Jill McCorkle, Micah Stack, Antonya Nelson, Ramona Ausubel, David Means, Jayne Anne Phillips, Chris Drangle, Christine Schutt, April Ayers Lawson, and Nick Fuller Googins. There is also a beautiful introduction to the stories by guest editor Jamie Quatro—and much more.

The cover image is "Dock #1" from the series Quantum Blink, by Isabel M. Martinez.