The Best American Short Stories 2011, a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Geraldine Brooks.[1]
| Author | Story | Where story previously appeared |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | "Ceiling" | Granta |
| Megan Mayhew Bergman | "Housewifely Arts" | One Story |
| Tom Bissell | "A Bridge Under Water" | Agni |
| Jennifer Egan | "Out of Body" | Tin House |
| Nathan Englander | "Free Fruit for Young Widows" | The New Yorker |
| Allegra Goodman | "La Vita Nuova" | The New Yorker |
| Ehud Havazelet | "Gurov in Manhattan" | TriQuarterly |
| Caitlin Horrocks | "The Sleep" | The Atlantic Fiction for Kindle |
| Bret Anthony Johnston | "Soldier of Fortune" | Glimmer Train |
| Claire Keegan | "Foster" | The New Yorker |
| Sam Lipsyte | "The Dungeon Master" | The New Yorker |
| Rebecca Makkai | "Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart" | Tin House |
| Elizabeth McCracken | "Property" | Granta |
| Steven Millhauser | "Phantoms" | McSweeney's |
| Ricardo Nuila | "Dog Bites" | McSweeney's |
| Joyce Carol Oates | "ID" | The New Yorker |
| Richard Powers | "To the Measures Fall" | The New Yorker |
| Jess Row | "The Call of Blood" | Harvard Review |
| George Saunders | "Escape from Spiderhead" | The New Yorker |
| Mark Slouka | "The Hare's Mask" | Harper's Magazine |