New Fiction
I Haven’t Always Been the Walt Whitman Service Area on the New Jersey Turnpike
Rob Roensch’s collection of stories, The Wildflowers of Baltimore, won the 2012 International Scott Prize for Short Stories from Salt Publishing. He lives in Oklahoma City and teaches at Oklahoma City University. His website is sites.google.com/site/robroensch.
Nuthatch
Olivia Postelli is a writer from Chicago. She is currently an MFA candidate in fiction at Oregon State University, and her work has been featured in Kenyon Review Online.
Cinderella
Sarah Harshbarger is an MFA candidate at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. She is originally from Woodbine, Maryland. Her fiction has also appeared in So to Speak.
The Preserved Wreckage of the World
Abigail Greenbaum has an MFA from the University of Mississippi. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Louisville Review, Creative Loafing Atlanta, Orion, and other places.
GRIST FICTION
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.
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