Two professors have received the 2014 Iowa Short Fiction Awards. The UI Press, an academic publishing service, will publish the winners in the fall.

Heather Slomski won the Iowa Short Fiction Award for her collection of stories The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons.  Kathleen Founds was awarded the John Simmons Short Fiction Award for When Mystical Creatures Attack.

Wells Tower, the author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, chose the recipients.

— by Stacey Murray