Contributors (2013-2024)

Glen Armstrong holds an MFA in English from the University of Amherst, Massachusetts and teaches writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Conduit, and Cloudbank.

Peter Barlow is the author of Little Black Dots (Chatter House Press, 2017).  His work has appeared in Rosebud, The MacGuffin, The Homestead Review, Red Rock Review, Underground Voices, and Per Contra.  He is an adjunct professor of English at University of Detroit-Mercy.

Matthew Bookin lives in Buffalo, NY. His work has been featured in Metazen, Shabby Doll House, The Fat City Review, Keep This Bag Away from Children, and Queen Vic Knives.

Eric Bosse is the author of Magnificent Mistakes, a story collection published by Ravenna Press. His work has appeared in The Sun, Zoetrope, Wigleaf, The Collagist, Frigg, Fiddleblack, and World Literature Today. He teaches writing at the University of Oklahoma, where he has served as both a visiting writer and faculty in residence.

Terry Brix, a green chemical engineer who lives in Blue River, Oregon, divides his time among Israel, South Africa, Scandinavia, Iceland, Finland, Canada, and Japan. His collection Fighting Exile was published by Kelsay Publishing in 2018. Inspired by his travels, a collection of his poetry Chiseled from the Heart was published in 2000 by Vigeland Museum, Norway. His poetry has appeared in, among others, Dos Passos Review, Concho River Review, The Evansville Review, Fireweed, Curbside Review, Rattlesnake Review, The Antioch Review and North American Review. www.terrybrix.com

Dustin Brookshire (he/him) is the author of the chapbooks Never Picked First for Playtime (Harbor Editions, 2023), Love Most Of You Too (Harbor Editions, 2021), and To The One Who Raped Me (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012). His poetry has been read on NPR and other radio stations, featured in Georgia Poetry in the Parks, and earned a Pushcart and Best of the Net Nominations. Dustin is the co-editor of Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology (Madville Publishing, 2023). Find him online at dustinbrookshire.com.

Tetman Callis was born in the Northeast and raised in the Southwest, his father a soldier and his mother a homemaker. He holds a degree in philosophy from the University of Texas at El Paso. His short fictions have been published in various magazines, including NOON, New York Tyrant, Salt Hill, Atticus Review, The Writing Disorder, J Journal, and Queen Mob’s Tea House. He is the author of two published books–the memoir High Street: Lawyers, Guns & Money in a Stoner’s New Mexico (2012, Outpost 19), and the children’s chapter-book Franny & Toby (2015, Silky Oak Press). His website is at https://www.tetmancallis.com/. He lives in Chicago with his wife and her cat.

Zoe Carson is a writer living in England. She has completed a Master’s degree in Creative Writing and her short stories have been published in Ink Literary Journal. 

Janet Clare has had short fiction and essays published at Literary Hub, Manifest Station, First Stop Fiction, New World Writing, Elm Leaves Journal, The Truth of Memoir and Spent. She lives in Los Angeles. Her first novel, Time Is The Longest Distance, was published in 2018.

Stephanie Kaplan Cohen’s poetry has appeared repeatedly in The New York Times, and has appeared or is forthcoming in 96 Inc., Aura/Literary Arts Review, The Cape Rock, The Coachella Review, Columbia Journal, Confluence, CQ (California Quarterly), Crack the Spine, and elsewhere. She is also an editor of The Westchester Review. Her work has been read on NPR.

Myfanwy Collins’s debut novel is Echolation (Engine Books, 2012). I Am Holding Your Hand, a collection of her short fiction, is available from [PANK] Books. The Book of Lancy, a YA novel, is out from Lacewing Books.

Angelina Cruzal is a second-year English graduate student at Buffalo State University. She is a former student athlete, playing for the Buffalo state Women’s ice hockey team, but now resides in her hometown of Campbell, California, where she is finishing her Masters. along with writing, reading, and watching movies, she enjoys coaching youth hockey, taking care of her plants, cooking/baking, and walking on the coast.

Marlanda Dekine is a poet who makes deep connections through poetry and worksho facilitation. She is the author of Thresh & Hold (Hub City Press). Dekine’s poems can be found in composed music and literary journals across the world.

Jill Dery has published stories and poetry in Bellingham Review, Fourteen Hills, Penn Review, and others. Her MFA in poetry is from UC Irvine. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she’s lived in Anchorage since 1992.

Annie Diamond is a Connecticut native living in Chicago. She earned her BA in English and creative writing from Barnard College. Her poems have been published in The Laurel Review, Free State Review, Rabid Oak, Juxtaprose, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships by The MacDowell Colony, The Lighthouse Works, and Boston University, where she completed her MFA in 2017.

Trevor Dodge’s work has appeared in publications including The Butter, Little Fiction, CHEAP POP, Juked, Hobart, Metazen, Western Humanities Review, ELJ, and many others. His latest books are The Laws of Average (Widow + Orphan) and He Always Still Tastes Like Dynamite (Subito).

Michael Don is the author of the story collection Partners and Strangers (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2019) and he co-edits Kikwetu: A Journal of East African Literature.

Denise Duhamel’s most recent books of poetry are Second Story (Pittsburgh, 2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.

Cymelle Edwards received Lawn Gnome Publishing’s poetry slam award. Cymelle is an active member of the Phoenix, AZ literary community.

Pia Z. Ehrhardt is the author of Famous Fathers & Other Stories. Her fiction and essays have appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Oxford American, Rumpus.net, Guernica, The Morning News, and Narrative Magazine. She lives in New Orleans, where she’s a visiting artist at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA).

Jeff Ewing is a writer from Northern California. He’s had stories and poems recently in ZYZZYVA, Willow Springs, Catamaran Literary Reader, Atlanta Review, Saint Ann’s Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Lake Effect, Dunes Review, and Bridge Eight. He lives in Sacramento, California with his wife and daughter.

Grant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. He recently published The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story. He’s also published All the Comfort Sin Can Provide; Fissures, a collection of 100-word stories; Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story; and Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo. His stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including Tin House, The Southwest Review, and The Gettysburg Review, and he has been anthologized in collections such as Norton’s New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, Flash Fiction America, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction. His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Writer’s Digest, and The Writer.

Lisa Ferranti’s fiction has been a Top 25 finalist in a Glimmer Train contest, nominated forThe Best American Short Stories 2023 Anthology, twice on the Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, and has three times been nominated for Best Small Fictions. Her work has appeared in RUBY Literary, Gordon Square Review, New Flash Fiction Review, Literary Mama, Fictive Dream, Lost Balloon, and elsewhere. She lives in Northeast Ohio with her family.

Gary Fincke has published collections of flash, full-length stories, poetry, and essays. His newest book is The Mayan Syndrome, a memoir in essays (Madhat Press, 2023). He is co-editor of the annual anthology Best Microfiction.

Kathy Fish’s short stories, flash fiction, and prose poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Washington Square Review, Waxwing Magazine, Copper Nickel, the Norton Reader, Best Small Fictions and other journals. Her fifth collection, Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018, is now in its 2nd print run with Matter Press. She is a recipient of the Copper Nickel Editor’s Prize and a 2020 Ragdale Foundation Fellowship.

Zach Fishel is an outdoor guide, poet, and reservation English teacher residing in North Dakota. His books appear courtesy of Red Paint Hill and Words Dance Press. His poetry has received multiple nominations for Best of the Web and the Pushcart.

Lucas Flatt’s work has appeared in Pithead Chapel, Sundog Lit, and Ellipsis.

Sherrie Flick is the recipient of a 2023 Creative Development Award from The Heinz Endowments. She’s the author of a novel and two short story collections, most recently Thank Your Lucky Stars (Autumn House Press). She served as co-editor for the W. W. Norton anthology Flash Fiction America and as series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018, with guest editor Aimee Bender. Her debut essay collection, Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist is forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press in September 2024, and a new story collection will publish with Autumn House in 2025.

Michael Fontana lives and writes in beautiful Bella Vista, Arkansas.  His recent and forthcoming work appears in The Gateway Review, Milkfist, Lunaris Review, Birmingham Arts Journal, Thema, and elsewhere.

Avital Gad-Cykman is the author of the flash collection Life In, Life Out, published by Matter Press (http://matterpress.com/press/life-in-life-out/). Her stories are upcoming or have been published in Prairie Schooner, The Literary Review, Ambit, CALYX Journal, Glimmer Train, McSweeney’s, Prism International, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. They have also been featured in anthologies such as W. W. Norton’s International Flash Fiction Anthology and The Best of Gigantic. Her work won the Margaret Atwood Society Magazine Prize, was placed first in The Hawthorne Citation Short Story Contest, and was a finalist for Iowa Fiction Award for story collections twice. She lives in Brazil.

Abigail George is a South African-based blogger, essayist, poet and short story writer. Recipient of two grants from the National Arts Council in Johannesburg, one from the Centre for the Book in Cape Town, and another from ECPACC in East London, she briefly studied film at the Newtown Film and Television School in Johannesburg.

Sean Gill is a writer and filmmaker who has studied with Werner Herzog and Juan Luis Buñuel, documented public defenders for National Geographic, and was a writer-in-residence at the Bowery Poetry Club from 2011-2012. He won the 2016 Sonora Review Fiction Prize, and other recent stories have been published in McSweeney’s, Word Riot, failbetter, So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, and Akashic Books.

January Gill O’Neil is an associate professor at Salem State University and the author of Glitter Road (February 2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. From 2012-2018, she served as the executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Her poems and articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, American Poetry Review, Poetry, and Sierra magazine, among others. Her poem, “At the Rededication of the Emmett Till Memorial,” was a co-winner of the 2022 Allen Ginsberg Poetry award from the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. The recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cave Canem, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, O’Neil was the 2019-2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, Oxford. She currently serves as the 2022-2024 board chair of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).

Marilee Goad is a queer poet who attended the University of Chicago and has work published or forthcoming in Ghost City Review, rose quartz journal, OUT/CAST, Persephone’s Daughters, and Georgetown University School of Medicine’s Scope arts magazine.

Lydia Gwyn is the author of the flash fiction collections: You’ll Never Find Another (2021, Matter Press) and Tiny Doors (2018, Another New Calligraphy). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in F(r)iction, Midway Journal, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Florida Review, New World Writing Quarterly, and others. A selection of pieces from her new collection “Emptiness, Standing Still” is available in Issue 22 of Ravenna Press’s Triples Series. She lives with her family in East Tennessee and works as an instruction librarian at East Tennessee State University.

Tina May Hall is the author of The Physics of Imaginary Objects and The Snow Collectors. Her work has appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Big Other, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, The Collagist, and other journals.

Morgan Harlow’s flash fiction appears in Ink, Sweat & Tears, Cheap Pop, Miramichi Flash, Bull Literary Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly, and other journals. She teaches writing in Madison, Wisconsin and is the author of the poetry collection Midwest Ritual Burning.

Susan Henderson is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and the recipient of an Academy of American Poets award. Her debut novel, Up from the Blue, was published by HarperCollins in 2010 and has been selected as a Great Group Reads pick (by the Women’s National Book Association), and outstanding softcover release (by NPR), a Prime Reads pick (by HarperCollins New Zealand), and Top 10 of 2010 (by Robert Gray of Shelf Awareness), and 2012 Book Club Choice (by the American Library Association), and a favorite reads feature on the Rosie O’Donnell show. Susan blogs at LitPark.com and is finishing her second novel.

Justin Herrmann is the author of the short fiction collection Highway One, Antarctica (MadHat Press 2014). He is the winner of the 2016 River Styx Micro-Fiction Contest. His stories have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Washington Square Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and others. He has an MFA from the University of Alaska Anchorage. He lives in Alaska with his partner and daughter.

Jim Hilgartner’s work has appeared in ACM: Another Chicago Magazine, Apocryphal Text: Poetry, The Chapbook, Greensboro Review, Mid-American Review, New Orleans Review, Red Mountain Review, SLAB, Vermont Literary Review, Worcester Review, Writing on the Edge, and elsewhere; he has twice been awarded the Fellowship in Literature from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

Corey Hill is a journalist, human rights activist, parent, and occasional tree climber. His fiction has been featured in Prole UK, Hypertrophic Literary, and Clarion.

Brandon Hobson is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow. His novel, Where the Dead Sit Talking, was a finalist for the National Book Award, Winner of the Reading of the West Award, and Longlisted for the Dublin Book Award, among other distinctions. His stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, McSweeneys, Conjunctions, NOON, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at New Mexico State University and at The Institute of American Indian Arts.

Peter Johnson’s most recent books are While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems (2023); and SHOT: A Novel in Stories (2021).

Laurie Kaiser has spent much of her adult life chasing stores as a reporter and feature writer for newspapers and magazines in Texas, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Chicago, Illinois. Her articles and essays have been published in several publications including The Christian Science Monitor, The Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Buffalo Magazine, and musing mama.com.

Jen Knox teaches leadership at Ohio State University and is the founder of Unleash Creatives, a holistic arts organization. Her debut novel, We Arrive Uninvited, is the Prose Award winner from Steel Toe Books, and her collection of climate fiction, The Glass City, won the Press Americana Prize for Prose. Jen’s shorter work appears in McSweeney’s Internet Quarterly, The Saturday Evening Post, Chicago Review, and Chicago Tribune, among others. She recently won the 2023 CutBank Montana Prize in Nonfiction and received a 2023 Ohio Arts Council grant to complete a collection of essays about work. jenknox.com

Harris Lahti received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. His work appears in Post Road, New York Tyrant, Fanzine, Yemassee, Potomac Review, and elsewhere.

David Lampe, Emeritus Professor of English, taught at SUNY College at Buffalo for 37 years. He now enjoys traveling to Europe with his grandchildren.

David Lander has published in The Australian, The Age, Overland, and Australian Poetry. He has had careers in education and theater. He lives with his partner in Hobart, Tasmania.

Jeff Landon lives with his scattered family (one wife, one daughter in college and the other out of college) and (new) dog in Richmond, Virginia. He has published a novella, Emily Avenue (Fast Forward Press), and a chapbook of short fiction, Truck Dance (Matter Press). His stories, online and print, have appeared in Mississippi Review, Crazyhorse, FRiGG, Another Chicago Magazine, Wigleaf, and other places.

Gregory Lawless’s poems have appeared in such places as Pleiades, The National Poetry Review, The Journal, Third Coast, Sonora Review, The Cincinnati Review, La Petite Zine, Cider Press Review, and many others. He is the author of I Thought I Was New Here (BlazeVOX, 2009) and Foreclosure (Back Pages Publishers, 2013).

Lynn Levin is the author of the poetry collection Miss Plastique and five other books. Her essays, short fiction, and poems have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, The Monarch Review, Boulevard, and other places. She teaches at Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Paul Lisicky is the author of four books including The Burning House and Unbuilt Projects. His works has appeared in Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Ploughshares, Post Road, Tin House, Unstuck, and other publications. He teaches in the MFA Program at Rutgers-Camden and serves on the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. A memoir, The Narrow Door, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press.

Julia LoFaso’s work has appeared in Conjunctions, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Day One, and Underwater New York. One of her stories was a finalist in the Southeast Review’s 2013 World’s Best Short-Short story contest, judged by Robert Olen Butler.

Robert Lopez is the author of two novels, Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River, and a collection of short fiction, Asunder. He lives in Brooklyn.

Sonia Leung, a Hong Kong-based writer and poet, is the author of Don’t Cry, Phoenix (2020), a bilingual (English and Chinese) poetry collection. Sonia holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in literary journals worldwide. Her second book, The Girl Who Dreamed – A Hong Kong Memoir of Triumph against the Odds, was published in March 2024. She is working on her third, Three-inch Heaven, a collection of personal essays and short stories reflecting Chinese women’s lives.

John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024). His other fiction is published in Conjunctions, Hobart, Salt Hill, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing,and many other journals. His criticism is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.

Michael A. Martone is a professor at The Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama, where he has been teaching since 1996. He is the author of more than a dozen books. His 2005 work, Michael Martone, is an investigation of form and autobiography. It was originally written as a series of contributor’s notes for various publications. His literary forte is “false biographies.”

Bobbie Ann Mason wrote the much-anthologized story “Shiloh.” Her novel In Country is widely taught in classrooms, and her memoir, Clear Springs, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her newest novel is The Girl in the Blue Beret, about World War II and the ways it is remembered.

Kevin Matz received an MFA from the University of Illinois. His writing has appeared in Mudfish, SmokeLong Quarterly, Jokes Review, The Literary Review, Cream City Review, New World Writing, december, Stirring, and elsewhere.

Nancy McCabe is the author of nine books, most recently the satirical novel The Pamela Papers (Outpost 19, February 2024), the young adult novel Vaulting Through Time (CamCat, July 2023), and the memoir Can This Marriage Be Saved? (University of Missouri Press, 2020). Her essays have received a Pushcart and ten recognitions on Best American anthologies’ notable lists.

Kathleen McGookey has published four books and three chapbooks of prose poems, most recently Instructions for My Imposter (Press 53) and Nineteen Letters (BatCat Press). Her chapbook Cloud Reports is forthcoming in 2024 from Celery City Chapbooks. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Copper Nickel, December, Epoch, Field, Prairie Schooner and The Southern Review.

Tamara Miles teaches college English in South Carolina. Her writings and art work have appeared in Fall Lines; O’Bheal Five Words; Love is Love; Auntie Bellum; Pantheon Magazine; UnLost Journal; Subprimal Poetry Art; The Tishman Review; Flash Fiction Magazine; and Apricity. Upcoming publications include writings of various types at The Devil’s Doorbell; NewPages; Verity La; Local Gems Press; Clade Song; and CeaseCows. She is a proud member of Irish writer Jane Barry’s online creativity salon known as That Curious Love of Green and a 2016 contributor at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

Paul Myette’s fiction has appeared in Apt Literary Magazine and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A graduate of the Bread Loaf School of English, Paul is currently at work on his first novel. He lives with his wife and children in Byfield, MA and works as a teacher and kayak guide.

Jefferson Navicky was born in Chicago, and grew up in Southeastern Ohio. He is the author of The Paper Coast (Spuyten Duyvil), and his work has been published in Smokelong Quarterly, Quickfiction, Hobart, Tarpaulin Sky, and Fairy Tale Review. He works as the archivist for the Maine Women Writers Collection, teaches English at Southern Maine Community College, and lives in Freeport, Maine with his wife, Sarah, and their puppy, Olive. He has received a Maine Arts Commission Good Idea Grant, and a Maine Literary Award for Drama.

Dave Newman is the author of five books, most recently Please Don’t Shoot Anyone Tonight (Broken River Books, 2017) and The Poem Factory (White Gorilla, 2015). He lives in Trafford, PA, the last town in the Electric Valley, with his wife, the writer Lori Jakiela, and their two children.

Joseph Nicoletti‘s most recent books are Thundersnow (Grandma Moses Press, 2017) and Reverse Graffiti (Bordighera, 2015). He holds degrees from the University of Iowa, New Mexico State University, and Sarah Lawrence College. A former Poetry Editor of Sou’wester, Joey lives in Grand Island, New York, where he runs around with his cat, dogs, and watches copious amounts of baseball.

Thomas O’Connell is a librarian living on the banks of the Hudson River in Beacon, NY, where he was the 2015-2016 poet laureate. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in Caketrain, The Los Angeles Review, The Broken Plate, and Blue Earth Review, as well as other print and online journals.

Cat Olson is a Buffalo State University graduate and works for the Times Observer in Warren, PA. In her spare time she keeps up at personal blog and dreams about applying to grad school—she’s not very proactive. She resides in Jamestown, NY.

Pamela Painter is the author of four story collections: the award-winning Getting to Know the Weather, The Long and Short of It, Ways to Spend the Night, and the flash collection Wouldn’t You Like To Know. She is also co-author of What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Great Jones Street, Harper’s, Five Points, SmokeLong Quarterly, and ThreePenny Review, among others, and in the flash anthologies, Sudden Fiction, Flash Fiction, and Microfiction. Painter’s flash stories are forthcoming in The Best Short Fiction of 2017 and New Micro Fiction 2018. Painter has received grants from The Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts, has won three Pushcart Prizes and Agni Review‘s The John Cheever Award for Fiction. Her flash stories have been presented on National Public Radio, and on the YouTube channel, CRONOGEO. Her work has also been staged by WordTheatre who presented Painter’s stories in Los Angeles, London, and New York.

Michigan poet Lynn Pattison’s work has appeared in The Notre Dame Review, Rhino, Harpur Palate, Smartish Pace, Rattle, Tinderbox, Slipstream, and Poetry East, among others, and has been anthologized in several venues. She is the author of three collections: tesla’s daughter (March St. Press); Walking Back the Cat (Bright Hill Press); and Light That Sounds Like Breaking (Mayapple Press).

Ted Pelton is the author of four books, most recently the novella Bartleby, the Sportscaster. He’s been writing stories about a woodchuck for about seven years now, which have appeared in Brooklyn Rail, Yellow Edenwald Field, and Gargoyle, among other venues. He is the founder and publisher of Starcherone Books and a Professor of Humanities at Medaille College in Buffalo.

Ralph Pennel’s writing as appeared in F(r)iction, The Cape Rock, Ropes, Ibbetson Street, Apercus Quarterly, Monologues from the Road, Open to Interpretation, Right Hand Pointing, and other various journals. His poetry collection, A World Less Perfect for Dying In, was published in 2015 by Cervena Barva Press. Ralph’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart, and he was a finalist for Somerville Poet Laureate in 2014.

Gary Percesepe’s poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews have appeared in Story Quarterly, N + 1, Salon, Mississippi Review, The Millions, Brevity, PANK, Metazen, The Brooklyner, and other places. He is the author of falling, a collection of poetry, and Itch, a collection of flash fiction, both available from Pure Slush Books. His collection of short stories, Why I Did the Grocery Girl, is forthcoming from Aqueous Books.

Jennifer Pieroni grew up in a small, rural town in central Massachusetts, studied writing at Emerson College in Boston, and now lives on the north shore of the state with her husband and son. Her fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Guernica, Wigleaf, and PANK. She served for more than a decade as the founding editor of Quick Fiction and currently works as a grant writer in the nonprofit sector. Her book Danceland was published Queen’s Ferry Press.

Claire Polders is a Dutch author writing in English. Her short prose has appeared in Mid-American Review, TriQuarterly, Denver Quarterly, Electric Literature, The Pinch, and other journals. Together with her husband, she wrote the novel, A Whale in Paris, a kids’ book for all ages, published in May 2018 (Atheneum/Simon&Schuster).