fiction

Ace Boggess of Charleston, West Virginia, is author of the novel A Song Without a Melody (Hyperborea, 2016) and four books of poetry, most recently I Have Lost the Art of Dreaming It So (Unsolicited, 2018) and Ultra Deep Field (Brick Road, 2017). His recent fiction appears in Notre Dame Review, Lumina, and Belmont Story Review. He received a fellowship from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts and spent five years in a West Virginia prison.

Brad Wetherell's work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, The Missouri Review, Five Points, Salon, Berkeley Fiction Review, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize as well as awarded the Writer in Residence Fellowship from Saint Albans School in Washington, DC. He now lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he is working on a novel.

Leslee Becker grew up in the Adirondacks. She’s a former Stegner Fiction Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, The Atlantic, Alaska Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Epoch, Boston Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, and has been teaching at Colorado State University for years.

Marlene Olin was born in Brooklyn, raised in Miami, and educated at the University of Michigan. Her short stories have been published or are forthcoming in journals such as The Massachusetts Review, Eclectica, The American Literary Review, and Arts and Letters. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart as well as the Best of the Net Prizes, and for inclusion in Best American Short Stories. She is the winner of the 2015 Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Award and the 2018 So To Speak Fiction Prize.

Melissa Goode’s work has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Split Lip Magazine, Forge Literary Magazine, Synaesthesia Magazine and matchbook, among others. Her story "It falls" (Jellyfish Review) was chosen by Aimee Bender for The Best Small Fictions 2018 (Braddock Avenue Books). She lives in Australia.

Michele Finn Johnson’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, DIAGRAM, Barrelhouse, SmokeLong Quarterly, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions, and won an AWP Intro Journals Award in nonfiction. Michele lives in Tucson and serves as assistant fiction editor at Split Lip Magazine.

Nina Sudhakar is an Indian-American writer, poet and lawyer based in Chicago. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Matriarchetypes (winner of the 2017 Bird's Thumb Poetry Chapbook Contest) and Embodiments (forthcoming from Sutra Press). Her work has appeared in Midnight Breakfast, Ecotone, and Arcturus.

Paul Luikart is the author of the short story collections Animal Heart (Hyperborea Publishing, 2016) and Brief Instructions (Ghostbird Press, 2017.) He is an adjunct professor of fiction writing at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. He and his family live in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Sara Henry's recent fiction has appeared in Hobart, BOOTH, and The Adroit journal, and is forthcoming in The Tahoma Review and The Cortland Review.

Sarah Hutchins earned a Masters in Fine Arts from Antioch University. Her pieces have been published by Portland Monthly Magazine, Black Heart Magazine, Haunted Waters Press, Zoetic Press, Blink-Ink, and others. She lives in Portland, Oregon.