For the 2022 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, Cristina Rivera Garza has selected Ways to Disappear by Victoria Lancelotta.

Victoria Lancelotta is the author of Here in the World: 13 Stories, and the novels Far and Coeurs Blesses. Her short fiction has been included in journals such as The ThreePenny Review and Glimmer Train and anthologies including The Best American Short Stories, The Best of Literal Latte and Blue Cathedral: Short Fiction for the New Millennium.  She has been a fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Djerassi Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony.  She is the recipient of a Tennessee Individual Artist Fellowship, multiple Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grants, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.