fiction

Barbara Lock, an emergency physician, pursues a writing MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. She edits fiction at Variant Lit and teaches Narrative Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Her writing appears in New Delta Review, Yalobusha Review, Fiction International, peripheries, and elsewhere.

Katherine Tunning's stories and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Lascaux Review, Midway Journal, Plainsongs, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. She lives with her partner (and a highly variable number of cats) in Boston, where she works as a translator.

Kim Magowan teaches in the Department of Literatures and Languages at Mills College. She is the author of How Far I've Come, forthcoming in 2022 from Gold Wake Press; the novel The Light Source (2019), published by 7.13 Books; and the short story collection Undoing (2018), which won the 2017 Moon City Press Fiction Award. Her fiction has been published in Booth, Craft Literary, The Gettysburg Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, and many other journals. Her stories have been selected for Best Small Fictions and Wigleaf's Top 50. She is the Editor-in-Chief and Fiction Editor of Pithead Chapel. 

Melissa Llanes Brownlee (she/her), a native Hawaiian writer, living in Japan, has fiction in Booth: A Journal, The Notre Dame Review, Pleiades, The Citron Review, Waxwing, Milk Candy Review, Claw & Blossom, Bending Genres, Micro Podcast, (mac)ro(mic), The Daily Drunk, Necessary Fiction, Have Has Had, The Birdseed, Bandit Fiction and elsewhere. She was selected for Best Small Fictions 2021. Hard Skin, her short story collection, will be coming soon from Juventud Press. She tweets @lumchanmfa.

Molly Andrea-Ryan is a poet and prose writer living in Pittsburgh, PA. Her work has recently appeared in Pithead Chapel, Barren Magazine, and elsewhere.