Short Stories Included
| Author | Story | Where story previously appeared |
| Louis Auchincloss | "Pa's Darling" | Yale Review |
| John Barth | "Toga Party" | Fiction |
| Ann Beattie | "Solid Wood" | Boulevard |
| T. C. Boyle | "Balto" | Paris Review |
| Randy DeVita | "Riding the Doghouse" | West Branch |
| Joseph Epstein | "My Brother Eli" | Hudson Review |
| William Gay | "Where Will You Go When Your Skin Cannot Contain You" | Tin House |
| Mary Gordon | "Eleanor's Music" | Ploughshares |
| Lauren Groff | "L. DeBard and Aliette: A Love Story" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Beverly Jensen | "Wake" | New England Review |
| Roy Kesey | "Wait" | Kenyon Review |
| Stellar Kim | "Findings & Impressions" | Iowa Review |
| Aryn Kyle | "Allegiance" | Ploughshares |
| Bruce McCallister | "The Boy in Zaquitos" | Fantasy and Science Fiction |
| Alice Munro | "Dimension" | The New Yorker |
| Eileen Pollack | "The Bris" | Subtropics |
| Karen Russell | "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" | Granta |
| Richard Russo | "Horseman" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Jim Shepard | "Sans Farine" | Harper's Magazine |
| Kate Walbert | "Do Something" | Ploughshares |
Read more about this topic: The Best American Short Stories 2007
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