title: The Best American Short Stories 1995
text: # The Best American Short Stories 1995
  
  The Best American Short Stories 1995, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor Jane Smiley.
  
  ## Short stories included
  
  | Author | Story | Source |
  | - | - | - |
  | Daniel Orozco | "Orientation" | The Seattle Review |
  | Thom Jones | "Way down Deep in the Jungle" | The New Yorker |
  | Ellen Gilchrist | "The Stucco House" | The Atlantic Monthly |
  | Jaimy Gordon | "A Night's Work" | The Michigan Quarterly Review |
  | Avner Mandelbaum | "Pity" | Zyzzyva |
  | Steven Polansky | "Leg" | The New Yorker |
  | Peter Ho Davies | "The Ugliest House in the World" | The Antioch Review |
  | Gish Jen | "Birthmates" | Ploughshares |
  | Edward J. Delaney | "The Drowning" | The Atlantic Monthly |
  | Joy Williams | "Honored Guest" | Harper's Magazine |
  | Andrea Barrett | "The Behavior of the Hawkweeds" | The Missouri Review |
  | Andrew Cozine | "Hand Jive" | The Iowa Review |
  | Stephen Dobyns | "So I Guess You Know What I Told Him" | Ploughshares |
  | Jennifer C. Cornell | "Undertow" | New England Review |
  | Kate Braverman | "Pagan Night" | Zyzzyva |
  | Melanie Rae Thon | "First, Body" | Anteus |
  | Don DeLillo | "The Angel Esmeralda" | Esquire |
  | Edward Falco | "The Artist" | The Atlantic Monthly |
  | Max Garland | "Chiromancy" | The New England Review |
  | Jamaica Kincaid | "Xuela" | The New Yorker |
  