Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Jenny Minton Quigley -- Introduction / Valeria Luiselli -- Screen time / Alejandro Zambra, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, The New York Times Magazine -- The wolves of Circassia / Daniel Mason, Zoetrope -- Mercedes's special talent / Tere Davila, translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Hanssens-Reed, The Offing -- Rainbows / Joseph O'Neill, The New Yorker -- A way with Bea / Shanteka Sigers, The Paris Review -- Seams / Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft, Freeman's -- The little widow from the capitol / Yohanca Delgado, The Paris Review -- Lemonade / Eshkol Nevo, translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston, Guernica -- Breastmilk / 'Pemi Aguda, One Story -- The old man of Kusumpur / Amir Mitra, translated from the Bengali by Anish Gupta, The Common -- Where they always meet / Christos Ikonomou, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich, The Yale Review -- Fish stories / Janika Oza, Kenyon Review -- Horse soup / Vladimir Sorokin, translated from the Russia by Max Lawton, N+1 -- Clean teen / Francisco Gonzalez, Gulf Coast -- Dengue boy / Michel Nieva, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer, Granta -- Zikora / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Amazon Original Stories -- Apples / Gunnhild Oyehaug, translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson, Freeman's -- Warp and weft / David Ryan, Harvard Review -- Face time / Lorrie Moore, The New Yorker -- An unlucky man / Samantha Schweblin, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern.

The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year.