Peg Alford Pursell

Selected Flash | Peg Alford Pursell

"Unable to sleep, I read the ancient texts while the skies lighten to day, yellow with smoke from the burning redwoods..." Peg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes into the Forest (Dzanc, 2019) and Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow (WTAW, 2017).

2019 Nominations: Pushcart, Best American, and Best of the Net

The Gravity of the Thing's editors are pleased to share our nominations for the 2021 Pushcart anthology, the 2020 Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays anthologies, and the 2019 Best of the Net anthology.

Peg Alford Pursell, author of A Girl Goes into the Forest (Dzanc Books, 2019)

Peg Alford Pursell's story collection A Girl Goes into the Forest, which includes a flash story that first appeared in The Gravity of the Thing's Fall 2018 issue, was recently published by Dzanc Books.

In the Beginning | Peg Alford Pursell

"Her father likes to tell the story of her beginning, as a blue baby. She has heard it two times before, a memorable magnitude when it comes to her taciturn father..."