New Fiction
The First of June
Carolyn Zaikowski is the author of the hybrid novel In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Everyday Feminism, DIAGRAM, West Branch, Dusie, Huffington Post, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University and currently works in Western Massachusetts as an English professor and death doula. Find her online at www.carolynzaikowski.com.
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Jordan Hill is an adjunct professor at Florida International University where he teaches creative writing and rhetoric. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Islandia Journal, Whale Road Review, and The MacGuffin.
Homebody
Jessica Dealing’s work has been published in Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, The MacGuffin, and elsewhere. She is an MFA candidate at Florida International University.
The Thief
Joseph Rakowski is a fiction writer. His short stories have been published by The Carolina Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, The Normal School, New Ohio Review, Witness Magazine, and elsewhere.
Elephants Bury Their Dead
Jasmine Sawers is a Kundiman fellow in fiction and a graduate of the MFA program at Indiana University. Originally from Buffalo, New York, Sawers now lives and pets dogs outside St. Louis. Sawers’s work has appeared in such publications as Ploughshares, Fairy Tale Review, and The Offing. Find out more at JasmineSawers.com
The Temperate Zone
Sara Joyce Robinson is a native and current resident of Southern California. She earned her MFA in Fiction from the University of California, Irvine, and served as Editor-in-Chief for their literary magazine Faultline for two years. Her past work has been published in Scribendi and been recognized as a finalist for Glimmertrain‘s New Voices Prize. She is currently at work on a novel.
GRIST FICTION
The First of June
Carolyn Zaikowski is the author of the hybrid novel In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Everyday Feminism, DIAGRAM, West Branch, Dusie, Huffington Post, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University and currently works in Western Massachusetts as an English professor and death doula. Find her online at www.carolynzaikowski.com.
Off
Jordan Hill is an adjunct professor at Florida International University where he teaches creative writing and rhetoric. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Islandia Journal, Whale Road Review, and The MacGuffin.
Homebody
Jessica Dealing’s work has been published in Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, The MacGuffin, and elsewhere. She is an MFA candidate at Florida International University.
The Thief
Joseph Rakowski is a fiction writer. His short stories have been published by The Carolina Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, The Normal School, New Ohio Review, Witness Magazine, and elsewhere.
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