Reading from Short Story-Turned-Play "A Landing Called Compromise" at the Salmagundi Club in NYC May 11-12, 2023

Stacker compiled a list of books set in Colorado from Goodreads, including The Silver Baron’s Wife by Donna Baier Stein. Whether you’re looking for a good read set in the state you call home, or you’re looking to expand your curiosity with a writer you’re already familiar with, we’ve got you covered.

The 338th episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with Donna Baier Stein, author of the short story collection Scenes from the Heartland.

Episode 207 Donna Baier Stein’s surprising tip for getting Into the voice of a character.

Donna Baier Stein speaks about her book, Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton.

Donna Baier Stein’s Scenes from the Heartland (Serving House Books) is a Finalist for the 2019 Big Other Book Award for Fiction!

Thanks to Elizabeth Cohen and American Book Review, Project Muse has published a review of Letting Rain Have Its Say.

“By imaginatively playing with a visual work of art, the writer can expand its meaning—not in terms of enlarging the original work, but in terms of offering more possibilities.” Donna Baier Stein explores the limits and liberties of perception in this essay on writing fiction from images.

On March 29, 1976, the New Yorker ran a now-iconic cover called “View of the World from 9th Avenue.” This illustration by Saul Steinberg showed the Midwest—that land of flat vowels, grain silos, and repression—as a condensed strip of Kansas Corn, Nebraska, Kansas City, and Chicago as its only landmarks.