New Fiction
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Nickalus Rupert spent most of his life near the Gulf Coast of Florida. In 2015, he completed an MFA fellowship at the University of Central Florida. Currently, he is a PhD student at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he works as an associate editor for Mississippi Review. His fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming in Slice Magazine, The Literary Review, Pleiades, Passages North, Sonora Review Online, and other journals.
Automat
Sarah Marie Kosch recently earned her MFA in fiction from Oregon State University. Originally from the Midwest, she now lives in Corvallis. She is a former fiction editor of OSU’s new lit mag 45th Parallel and is involved with Anomalous Press. Other stories of hers can be found in Rappahannock Review, Gemini Magazine, Knee-Jerk Magazine, Print-Oriented Bastards, The Quotable, and Blinders Journal.
There Are Such Unfortunates
Sean Ennis is the author of the short story collection Chase Us (New Harvest), and teaches writing and literature at the University of Mississippi. More of his work can be found at seanennis.net.
Twenty-One Beginnings for the Same Short Story
Eric Dovigi lives in Flagstaff, Arizona. His work can be found at: Hobart, Westwind Journal, Sourland Mountain Review, Blue Planet Journal, and elsewhere.
The Perfect Crime by Hisham Bustani
Hisham Bustani is a Jordanian award-winning author of four collections of short fiction. His fiction has been translated into five languages, with English-language translations appearing in journals across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, including World Literature Today, Los Angeles Review of Books and The Literary Review. In 2009, he was chosen by the German review Inamo as one of the Arab world’s emerging and influential new writers. In 2013, the UK-based cultural webzine The Culture Trip listed him as one of Jordan’s top six contemporary writers. His book The Perception of Meaning won the 2014 University of Arkansas Arabic Translation Award, and was published in 2015 by Syracuse University Press. One of Hisham’s stories was recently chosen to be featured in the inaugural edition of The Best Asian Short Stories anthology, forthcoming in 2017.
THE 20 SPECULATIVE REGIONS OF MISTY HORROR
Jo Letke has lived in the following places: Westminster, MD, Chicago, IL, London, UK, Columbus, OH, Valencia, CA, Los Angeles, CA.
GRIST FICTION
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.
Wolfy
Andrew Joseph Kane’s fiction is forthcoming in Eckleburg. He is also a produced playwright and professional actor. He holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
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