River Teeth Essays on Best American Essays List

Congratulations to the authors of the four River Teeth essays listed on this year's Best American Essays list of Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction for 2016:

• "If Woman Is Five" by Sonja Huber (Spring 2016, vol. 18.1) 
• "Thieves" by Jerald Walker (Spring 2016, vol. 18.1)
  
• "Five Autobiographical Fragments or She May Have Been a Witch" by David Lazar (Fall 2016, vol. 18.2) 
• "Unpinned" by Heather Gemmen Wilson (Fall 2016, vol. 18.2)
  

And to River Teeth Associate Editor and Beautiful Things co-editor Sarah Wells whose essay "The Body Is Not a Coffin" (Under the Gum Tree, April 2016) also appeared on this year's list.