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A Guy Walks into a Bar by Kristen Arnett
Kristen Arnett is a fiction and essay writer who has held fellowships at Tin House, Kenyon Review, and Lambda Literary Foundation. She was awarded Ninth Letter’s 2015 Literary Award in Fiction and was named an honorable mention for Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. Her work has either appeared or is upcoming at North American Review, The Normal School, The Greensboro Review, Tin House Flash Fridays/The Guardian, Salon, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. You can find her on Twitter @Kristen_Arnett
Breakfast
Jennifer Savran Kelly works as managing editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art and binds books in Ithaca, New York. Her fiction recently appeared in Stone Canoe, and her film Invisible Ink, co-written with Christopher Julian, was released by Vanguard Cinema in 2012. She is currently working on her first novel with generous support from the Writer to Writer Mentorship Program hosted by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.
Fusion
Laura Wang is a writer and educator in New York City public schools, where she teaches human beings about molecules.
Fishing for Mermaids
Kate Tighe-Pigott earned her MFA at the University of Kentucky. Her short fiction is recently published (or forthcoming) from Blackbird, Passages North, River River, and Willow Springs. Earlier work has appeared in Literary Mama and Apocrypha and Abstractions. She lives in Brooklyn.
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