Hamline Alum JP Gritton publishes new story, "Tom Sawyer," in "Ploughshares"

2006 English and Creative Writing alum and current Duke University professor JP Gritton has a new story, "Tom Sawyer," in the Winter 2025-2026 edition of national journal Ploughshares.  Gritton is the author of Wyoming (Tin House Books, 2019). His essays and short fiction have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Missouri Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. “Tom Sawyer” is the last in a four-part novella-in-shorts. Its first installment (“Wonder Boy”) won Literary Matter’s 2019 Meringoff Writing Award for fiction; the second (“Referral”) and third (“Wonder Boy, Revisited”) appear in the 2024 and 2025 issues of Gavialidae.