R. M. Kinder
Works

2021
A Common Person and Other Stories
These sixteen stories, by turns humorous, unsettling, and utterly believable, expose the dangers of ordinary life as their characters perform acts of defiance, determination, and connection. The memorable characters in A Common Person and Other Stories are, like us, doing the best they can, and that is often remarkable and admirable. Considered closely, Kinder shows us, no person is common.
2016
The Universe Playing Strings
2012
Old-Time Fiddlihng: Hal Sappington, Missouri Fiddler
2007
An Absolute Gentleman
2005
A Near-Perfect Gift
1991
Sweet Angel Band
Awards and Recognition
- Willa Cather Award for Sweet Angel Band and Other Stories (Helicon Nine 1991); Literary Fiction Award for A Near Perfect Gift and Other Stories (U of Michigan 2005); Richard Sullivan Award for Short Fiction for A Common Person and Other Stories, (University of Notre Dame Press 2021)