Edward Salem

Edward Salem is a recipient of the 2022 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and was chosen by Ottessa Moshfegh as the winner of BOMB’s 2021 Fiction Contest. His writing has been published in Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, The Columbia Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Best Debut Short Stories (Catapult), among others. He is the co-founder and co-director of City of Asylum/Detroit, a nonprofit that provides long-term sanctuary to writers and artists who have been persecuted for their work, so that they may live and create freely without censorship or threats to their lives.

• Sacrilege
• Bust of a Pugilist
• Why Isn’t There a Third Intifada?