Fiction

Abby Horowitz is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review, Black Warrior Review, and Slice. She lives in Atlanta with her family.

Cathy Ulrich is a fiction writer from Montana. Her stories have appeared in Monkeybicycle, Fiction Southeast, The Citron Review, Paper Darts, The Atticus Review, Cheap Pop, among others. A single mother, when she's not busy working, she enjoys playing the clarinet and beading.

Elizabeth Maria Naranjo is the author of The Fourth Wall (WiDo Publishing, 2014). Her stories and essays have appeared in Brevity Magazine,YARN, The Portland Review, Literary Mama, Hospital Drive, and SLAB Literary Magazine. She lives in Tempe, Arizona, with her husband and two children. 

Kevin Tosca lives in Paris.

K.K. Fox received her MFA from the University of Memphis. Her short stories have appeared in publications including Tupelo Quarterly, The Adirondack Review, and Memphis Magazine. She is assistant fiction editor for Four Way Review. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is writing a collection of short stories. This story is a part of that collection.

Leah Browning is the author of three short nonfiction books and four chapbooks. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Coldnoon, Santa Ana River Review, Bellows American Review, First Class Literary Magazine, Waypoints, Chagrin River Review, Fiction Southeast, Nebo, Newfound, Queen’s Quarterly, Blood Orange Review, Per Contra, 300 Days of Sun, Glassworks Magazine, Mud Season Review, and elsewhere. Her work was also included on materials from Broadsided Press and Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf, with audio and video recordings in The Poetry Storehouse, and in anthologies including Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence from White Pine Press.

Mathew Michael Hodges lives and writes in Providence, RI. His work has appeared in Temper Literary Review and Irish Connections Magazine. He earned his MFA from San Diego State and teaches at the Community College of Rhode Island and Bristol Community College. 

Sherril Jaffe is the author, most recently, of the 2011 novel, Expiration Date, and the 2013 collection, You Are Not Alone and Other Stories, which was awarded the 2011 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. Black Sparrow Press published her first six books, and her collaboration with Alan Lew, One God Clapping, was given the Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence, a PEN Award, in 2000. She is a Bennington MFA, MacDowell fellow, and, as of this fall, Professor Emerita of Literature and Creative Writing at Sonoma State University.

Thomas Legendre’s previous work includes The Burning (a novel), several short stories, and some critical and creative essays. He has also written Half Life, a play performed as part of NVA’s art installation in conjunction with The National Theatre of Scotland, and a radio drama entitled Dream Repair for BBC 4. Most recently he has completed Living in the Past, a novel involving archaeology, music, and time travel. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham. Read more at thomaslegendre.com. Audio recording readers are Beth Cochrane and Thomas Legendre.

William Cass has had over a hundred short stories accepted for publication in a variety of literary magazines and anthologies such as december, Briar Cliff Review, and Conium Review. Recently, he was a finalist in short fiction and novella competitions at Glimmer Train and Black Hill Press, received a Pushcart nomination, and won writing contests at Terrain.org and The Examined Life Journal. He lives in San Diego, California.