Ted McLoof

Ted McLoof teaches creative writing at the University of Arizona. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Minnesota Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Monkeybicycle, Hobart, DIAGRAM, Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, Louisville Review, Ninth Letter, Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. He’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net Award. He is the author of two books: Anhedonia, a collection of short fiction, was published in 2022 by Finishing Line Press. His second collection, Empty Calories and Male Curiosity, was a finalist for the Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize, a semifinalist for the Wolfson Prose competition, and is now available from COSMORAMA.

Ted McLoof Recommends: Nicholas Montemarano’s “If the Sky Falls” and Anna Dickson James’ “Boys Buy Me Drinks to Watch me Fall Down”

June 9, 2026 · Interviews & Reviews

Nicholas Montemarano, If the Sky Falls (Yellow Shoe Fiction, 2005) I was 24 years old when I first encountered Nicholas Montemarano. He was reading for a class I was TAing for, so I dutifully picked up his then-latest book, If the Sky Falls, a collection of short stories. You have to understand that this kind of thing happens a lot: reading the books of visiting writers is part and parcel of academia, and unfortunately the books are often at best easy to get through and at worst a chore. I was as a result not only pleasantly surprised but gobsmacked…

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