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NADXIELI NIETO is the editor of Tiny Crimes and Gigantic Worlds with Lincoln Michel, and Carteles Contra Una Guerra. She was formerly the managing editor of NOON annual and editor in chief of Salt Hill. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vice, New York Tyrant, and elsewhere. Her collaborative artist books may be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum.
About the Contributors
SELENA GAMBRELL ANDERSON’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Oxford American, The Georgia Review, Bomb, Callaloo, Fence, and Best American Short Stories 2020. She has received fellowships from the Kimbilio Center, the MacDowell Colony, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and recently won a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She lives in San Francisco with her family and is working on a novel.
J. S. BREUKELAAR is the author of the collection Collision: Stories and the novels Aletheia and American Monster. Her new novel, The Bridge, will be released in early 2021. You can find her fiction and nonfiction at Gamut, Lightspeed, Black Static, Juked, Volume 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at LitReactor.com and at the University of Sydney, in Australia, where she lives with her family.
KEVIN BROCKMEIER is the author of eight volumes of fiction and one memoir. His most recent book, from which “Parakeets” is taken, is The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories. He teaches frequently at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was raised.
CHASE BURKE is the author of the fiction chapbook Lecture, published as a winner of the Paper Nautilus Debut Series. Elsewhere, his stories appear in Glimmer Train, Salt Hill, and Sycamore Review, among other journals. Burke has an MFA from the University of Alabama, where he was the fiction editor of Black Warrior Review. He lives in Florida and is working on a collection of stories and a novel. You can find him at chaseburke.com.
AMRITA CHAKRABORTY is a Bangladeshi American writer. Her work has been published by Kajal Magazine, BOAAT, Split Lip Magazine, and The Tempest, among other publications. She is on the staff of Half Mystic journal, and was a winner of the 2018 Golden Shovel Poetry Prize. She is working on her first novel.
VAJRA CHANDRASEKERA is from Colombo, Sri Lanka. His work has appeared in Analog, Clarkesworld, and Nightmare, among other publications. You can find him online at vajra.me.
WHITNEY COLLINS’s debut story collection, Big Bad, received the 2019 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and is forthcoming from Sarabande Books in 2021. Collins is a 2020 Pushcart Prize winner (“The Entertainer”) and a 2020 Pushcart Prize Special Mention (“The Pupil”). Her fiction has appeared in New Ohio Review, Grist, The Pinch, The Chattahoochee Review, Ninth Letter, and Southeast Review, among other publications. She lives in Kentucky.
JOSH COOK is the author of the novel An Exaggerated Murder, published by Melville House in March 2015. His fiction and other work has appeared in the Coe Review, Epicenter, Owen Wister Review, Barge, Plume Anthology of Poetry 2012 and 2013, and elsewhere. He was a finalist in the 2011 and 2012 Cupboard Pamphlet fiction contest. He is a bookseller with Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
MEG ELISON is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. Her series, The Road to Nowhere, won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award. She was a James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award honoree in 2018. In 2020, she published her first collection, Big Girl, with PM Press and her first young adult novel, Find Layla, with Skyscape. Elison has been published in McSweeney’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fangoria, and many other places. She is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley.
BRIAN EVENSON has published over a dozen books of fiction, most recently Song for the Unraveling of the World. His novel Last Days was a 2010 ALA/RUSA-recommended book, and his novel The Open Curtain was a finalist for an Edgar Award. His story collection The Wavering Knife won the International Horror Guild Award. A new collection, The Glassy Burning Floor of Hell, which includes this story, will appear in 2021. He is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts.
COREY FARRENKOPF lives on Cape Cod with his wife, Gabrielle, and works as a librarian. His fiction has been published in Redivider, Catapult, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Volume 1 Brooklyn, Slush Pile Magazine, Third Point Press, Cotton Xenomorph, and elsewhere. To learn more, follow him on twitter @CoreyFarrenkopf or on the web at CoreyFarrenkopf.com
IVÁN PARRA GARCIA holds an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa, where he was the editor in chief of Iowa Literaria. His stories and essays have been published in Spanish and English in Litro, Revista Leer, Suburbano, Al filo del Pensamiento, and Shahrazad Press. He is the author of Texarkana, a collection of short stories, and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. You can find him at iparragarcia.com.
RACHEL HENG is the author of the novel Suicide Club, which won the Gladstone Library Writers in Residence Award 2020 and will be translated into ten languages worldwide. Heng’s short fiction has received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and Prairie Schooner’s Jane Geske Award and has appeared in Glimmer Train, Guernica, McSweeney’s Quarterly, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.
THERESA HOTTEL was born in Taipei and raised in southern Oklahoma, and writes about ghosts, women, and landscape. Her fiction appears in No Tokens Journal, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Volume 1 Brooklyn, and she has received support from Art Omi: Writers, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and Homestead National Monument, among other organizations. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and is at work on her first novel.
SAMANTHA HUNT is the author of the short story collection The Dark Dark and three novels: Mr. Splitfoot, a ghost story; The Invention of Everything Else, about the life of inventor Nikola Tesla; and The Seas. She is the recipient of a
