fiction

Abby Manzella

Abby Manzella

Abby Manzella is the author of Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements, winner of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Book Award. She has published with The Threepenny Review, Lit Hub, Catapult, Colorado Review, and Pleiades.

Abby Manzella

Abby Manzella

Abby Manzella is the author of Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements, winner of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Book Award. She has published with The Threepenny Review, Lit Hub, Catapult, Colorado Review, and Pleiades.

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Adam Straus

Adam Straus

Adam Straus is a Marine veteran. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Hopkins Review, trampset, JMWW, The Los Angeles Review, Pithead Chapel, and elsewhere. Adam holds an MFA from Rutgers-Camden.

Adam Straus

Adam Straus

Adam Straus is a Marine veteran. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Hopkins Review, trampset, JMWW, The Los Angeles Review, Pithead Chapel, and elsewhere. Adam holds an MFA from Rutgers-Camden.

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Jane Berg

Jane Berg

Jane Berg is reading towards an MFA in Creative Writing at San José State University where she is currently a Teaching Associate and was recently the Managing Editor of Reed Magazine, Issue 156.

Jane Berg

Jane Berg

Jane Berg is reading towards an MFA in Creative Writing at San José State University where she is currently a Teaching Associate and was recently the Managing Editor of Reed Magazine, Issue 156.

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Kim Magowan

Kim Magowan

Kim Magowan lives in San Francisco and teaches in the English Department of Mills College at Northeastern University. She is author of the short story collection Don't Take This the Wrong Way, co-authored with Michelle Ross, forthcoming from EastOver Press; the story collection How Far I've Come (2022), published by Gold Wake Press; the novel The Light Source (2019), published by 7.13 Books; and the story collection Undoing (2018), which won the 2017 Moon City Press Fiction Award. Her stories have been selected for Best Small Fictions and Wigleaf's Top 50. She is Editor-in-Chief and Fiction Editor of Pithead Chapel.

Kim Magowan

Kim Magowan

Kim Magowan lives in San Francisco and teaches in the English Department of Mills College at Northeastern University. She is author of the short story collection Don't Take This the Wrong Way, co-authored with Michelle Ross, forthcoming from EastOver Press; the story collection How Far I've Come (2022), published by Gold Wake Press; the novel The Light Source (2019), published by 7.13 Books; and the story collection Undoing (2018), which won the 2017 Moon City Press Fiction Award. Her stories have been selected for Best Small Fictions and Wigleaf's Top 50. She is Editor-in-Chief and Fiction Editor of Pithead Chapel.

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Magowan

Lee Martin

Lee Martin

Lee Martin is the author of fourteen books, including The Bright Forever, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, and, most recently, The Glassmaker’s Wife. He is the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. He teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University and at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. 

Lee Martin

Lee Martin

Lee Martin is the author of fourteen books, including The Bright Forever, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, and, most recently, The Glassmaker’s Wife. He is the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. He teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University and at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. 

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Michelle Ross

Michelle Ross

Michelle Ross is the author of three award-winning story collections: There’s So Much They Haven’t Told You (Moon City Press, 2016); Shapeshifting (Stillhouse Press, 2021); and They Kept Running (UNT Press, 2022). Her forthcoming book, Don’t Take This the Wrong Way, is a collaborative short story collection she wrote with Kim Magowan. Her work is included in Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, the Wigleaf Top 50, and the Norton anthology, Flash Fiction America. It received special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology. She is Editor of 100 Word Story.

Michelle Ross

Michelle Ross

Michelle Ross is the author of three award-winning story collections: There’s So Much They Haven’t Told You (Moon City Press, 2016); Shapeshifting (Stillhouse Press, 2021); and They Kept Running (UNT Press, 2022). Her forthcoming book, Don’t Take This the Wrong Way, is a collaborative short story collection she wrote with Kim Magowan. Her work is included in Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, the Wigleaf Top 50, and the Norton anthology, Flash Fiction America. It received special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology. She is Editor of 100 Word Story.

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Pamela Painter

Pamela Painter

Pamela Painter is the award-winning author of five story collections. Her stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Ekphrastic Review, Flash Boulevard, Harper’s, Kenyon Review, JMWW, Michigan Quarterly Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Three Penny Review, and Vestal Review among others, and in the anthologies Sudden Fiction, Flash Fiction, and recently in Flash Fiction America, Best Microfiction of 2023, and Best Small Fictions 2023. Painter’s stories have received three Pushcart Prizes and have been staged by Word Theatre in LA, London and NYC.

Pamela Painter

Pamela Painter

Pamela Painter is the award-winning author of five story collections. Her stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Ekphrastic Review, Flash Boulevard, Harper’s, Kenyon Review, JMWW, Michigan Quarterly Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Three Penny Review, and Vestal Review among others, and in the anthologies Sudden Fiction, Flash Fiction, and recently in Flash Fiction America, Best Microfiction of 2023, and Best Small Fictions 2023. Painter’s stories have received three Pushcart Prizes and have been staged by Word Theatre in LA, London and NYC.

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Painter