Fiction

Anne Colwell, an English professor at the University of Delaware, has published two books of poems: Believing Their Shadows (Word Poetry, 2010) and Mother’s Maiden Name (Word Poetry, 2013). She writes poetry and fiction and won the 2013 Emerging Artist in Fiction Award for her novel, Holy Day.

Claire Polders grew up in the Netherlands and now roams the world. She’s the author of four novels in Dutch, one novel for younger readers (A Whale in Paris, Simon & Schuster), and many short stories and essays. Recurrent themes in her writing are identity, feminism, social justice, traveling, and death. She works on a memoir about elder abuse, a speculative novel, and a short prose collection.

James Pate is a fiction writer and poet who grew up in Memphis. He has an MFA from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, and his work has appeared in La Petite Zine, storySouth, Cream City Review, Black Warrior Review, New Delta Review, Blue Mesa Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Pembroke Magazine, and Bayou Magazine, among other places. He is the author of The Fassbinder Diaries (Civil Coping Mechanisms), a collection of micro-fiction. His book Flowers Among the Carrion: Essays on the Gothic in Contemporary Poetry is forthcoming from the Action Books. He teaches at Shepherd University.

Katie M. Flynn is Fiction Editor at the Indianola Review. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrelhouse, Carve, Flyway, Monkeybicycle, Paper Darts, and elsewhere. She’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice and holds an MFA from the University of San Francisco. Recently, she completed her first novel about love, revenge, and uploaded consciousness. When she’s not writing, she’s teaching herself classical guitar, nerding out over chess, or chasing her two kids through the wilds of San Francisco.

Kelcey Ervick is the new name of Kelcey Parker, author of two award-winning works of fiction: Liliane's Balcony: A Novella of Fallingwater (Rose Metal Press 2013) and For Sale By Owner (Kore Press 2011). Her forthcoming book, The Bitter Life of Božena Němcová, will be published by Rose Metal Press in 2016. She teaches at Indiana University South Bend. (Kelcey Ervick is also the old name of Kelcey Parker, who changed her name a long time ago and has now changed it back.)

Lee Upton is the author of books of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism. Her most recent books are Bottle the Bottles the Bottles the Bottles from the Cleveland State University Poetry Center (2015), and The Tao of Humiliation: Stories from BOA Editions (2014).

Lynn Mundell’s work has appeared in Literary Orphans, The Sun, Eclectica, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Counterexample Poetics, and elsewhere. More flash fiction is forthcoming in 2016 in Thrice Fiction, Serving House Journal, and Five Points. Lynn lives in Northern California, where she co-edits 100 Word Story.

Mark Ali's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Forge Journal, Lalitamba Magazine, Digital Paper, Pearl, Zillah, Occam's Razor, and Rad Dad. He is currently working on a novel, A New Kind of Fool, lives in Oakland, California, and is the proud father of two sons. Mark is an English teacher, program coordinator, and Bay Area Writing Project teacher consultant.

Marvin Shackelford is author of a poetry collection, Endless Building (Urban Farmhouse). His stories and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Epiphany, Hobart, FiveChapters, Southern Humanities Review, Pithead Chapel, and elsewhere. He resides in the Texas Panhandle with his wife, Shea, and earns a living in agriculture.

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.

Molly Giles is the author of four prize winning collections of stories and a novel. She recently retired from teaching in the MFA Program at the University of Arkansas and lives in West Marin.