These stories offer layered, perceptive takes on what home means to us. The people we meet in these stories are often traveling to and from home—thinking about where they have come from, where they are headed, and how that journey will impact their futures. Although the stories approach homecoming and homesickness through varied moods and styles, they all come around to confronting a shared need: a place to call home.

Contributions by: Ed Allen, Wendy Brenner, David Crouse, Philip F. Deaver, Toni Graham, Mary Hood, Karin Lin-Greenberg, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, Becky Mandelbaum, C. M. Mayo, Christopher McIlroy, Peter Meinke, Paul Rawlins, Monica McFawn, Hugh Sheehy, iamak Vossoughi, Leigh Allison Wilson