Fiction
Tell Them You Love Them in Person
Tell Them You Love Them in Person Zachary Kocanda The day before Valentine’s Day, the sign above the expressway read: Texting is tacky. Tell them
Aaron’s Trash
Nitya Gupta (she/her) is a fiction writer from Chicago. She’s currently an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was a 2023 Tin House Scholar and a finalist for the 2022 Jesmyn Ward Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review.
Not Everyone Gets To Go To Tennessee
Andrew Furman is a professor of English at Florida Atlantic University and teaches in its MFA program in Creative Writing. Recent stories and essays have appeared in such publications as Prairie Schooner, Santa Monica Review, Terrain.org, and Willow Springs. His books include the novels Jewfish (Little Curlew Press, 2020) and Goldens are Here (Green Writers Press, 2018), and the memoir, Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida (University Press of Florida, 2014), which was named a finalist for the ASLE Environmental Book Award. You can find him at andrewfurmanwriter.com.
Dream of a Unified Field
Josh Emmons has published two novels with Scribner and a short story collection with Dzanc Books, plus fiction in ZYZZYVA, Ecotone, Chicago Quarterly Review, Santa Monica Review, West Branch, The American Scholar, Joyland, The New York Times and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles.
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.
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.
Therapy Animals and Other Performers
Katie DePasquale enjoys telling a good story and making sure it’s correctly punctuated. A Pushcart Prize nominee for fiction, her writing has appeared in Tin House online, Tupelo Quarterly, Milk Candy Review, GASHER Journal, and Atticus Review, among other publications. She has an M.A. in writing and publishing from Emerson College and works as a freelance writer and editor.
Hardware
Thomas Legendre’s most recent novel, Keeping Time, was published by Acre Books in March. His previous work includes The Burning (a novel), Half Life (a play), and Dream Repair (a radio drama). He is an Assistant Professor in English at the University of Nottingham. For more detail visit thomaslegendre.com.
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