We Are the Living is a 1933 collection of short stories by Erskine Caldwell, comprising some of his earlier works.

16 of its 20 stories were previously published in various magazines, while four -- "The Medicine Man," "Meddlesome Jack," "The Grass Fire," and "A Woman in the House" -- were new.

Several of them are laid against the background of the lives of ordinary people in the contemporary US South,[2] the social milieu most familiar to the author; some are specifically located in his home state of Georgia.

The stories in the book include: Biographer Wayne Mixon wrote that We are the Living largely "went unnoticed in the southern press."

[2] TIME magazine, reviewing the collection in 1933, highlighted Caldwell's more bawdy, humorous stories as standouts.