Fiction

Bill Gaythwaite’s short stories have appeared in The Ledge, Third Wednesday, Boston Literary Magazine, Word Riot, and elsewhere. His work is also included in Mudville Diaries, an anthology of baseball-themed essays published by Avon Books. He is a seven-time finalist in contests at Glimmer Train and was a second place finalist in the Lamia Ink! International One-Page Play Festival. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Bill is on the staff of the Committee on Asia and the Middle East at Columbia University.

Gregory J. Wolos lives in upstate New York on the bank of the Mohawk River. His short fiction has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Post Road, Silk Road Review, A-Minor Magazine, JMWW, Yemassee, The Baltimore Review, The Madison Review, The Los Angeles Review, PANK, A cappella Zoo, Jersey Devil Press, and many other journals and anthologies. His stories have earned three Pushcart Prize nominations, and his latest collection was named a finalist for the 2012 Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award.

Jen Knox writes and teaches fiction in San Antonio, Texas. Her writing appears in The Adirondack Review, Bound Off, Istanbul Review, Per Contra, and Room Magazine. Jen is currently writing a novel, and she recently released a chapbook of short stories, Don't Tease the Elephants, with Monkey Puzzle Press (2014).

Jennifer Murphy writes Fiction. She is an Arizona native living in Boston where she is an MFA candidate in the fiction program at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She lives with her wife and two cats in a small apartment above a garage. Her stories have appeared in Write on the DOT, a journal of Dorchester artists, and The Breakwater Review, UMass Boston's online literary journal. When not writing she searches for edible Mexican food in and around New England and eavesdrops on conversations between fellow passengers on the train.  

John Vanderslice teaches writing at the University of Central Arkansas, where he also serves as associate editor of Toad Suck Review. His short fiction has appeared in dozens of literary journals, including Versal, New Writing, The Pinch, Crazyhorse, Southern Humanities Review, and Exquisite Corpse. His linked story collection Island Fog, which features both historical and contemporary fiction set on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, has been named one of the Top 15 Indie Fiction titles of 2014 by Library Journal.

Kelly Morris holds an MFA from Spalding University, and her work has appeared in various literary magazines. She is a co-founder and regular contributor to the blog Literary Labors (And the Occasional Cheese Dip). When she’s not writing, Kelly can be found hanging out with her kids, who remain unconvinced that being a writer is actually a very cool job.

Kirie C. Pedersen lives on the edge of the Olympic National Park in Washington State. She received her M.A. in fiction writing and literature, studying with Annie Dillard as thesis chair. Her stories appear in literary magazines and journals, and she recently completed a novel, How to Cry.

Kristen Arnett is a fiction and essay writer who has held fellowships at Tin House and Lambda Literary Foundation. She was an honorable mention for Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers as well as a finalist for the 2014 William Richey short fiction contest at Yemassee Journal. Her work has either appeared or is upcoming in North American Review, The Rumpus, The Toast, and Burrow Press Review. She is currently finishing up her first short fiction collection.

A former U.S. Foreign Service officer, Mark Jacobs has published more than 100 stories in magazines including The Atlantic, The Southern Humanities Review, The Idaho Review, The Southern Review, and The Kenyon Review. He has stories forthcoming in several magazines including Playboy. His story How Birds Communicate won The Iowa Review fiction prize. His five books include A Handful of Kings, published by Simon and Shuster, and Stone Cowboy, by Soho Press, which won the Maria Thomas Award.

Robert Detman has published fiction and reviews in numerous journals, with recent work in Akashic Books and the Antioch Review. His short story collection was a semifinalist for the 2013 Hudson Prize from Black Lawrence Press, and he is the author of the novel Impossible Lives of Basher Thomas (Figureground Press 2014).