H. Bustos Domecq is a pseudonym that Jorge Luis Borges (born in 1899) and Adolfo Bioy Casares (born in 1914) used for their detective stories and "Monsterfest" (La fiesta del monstruo), which circulated underground in Buenos Aires before it was first published in Marcha in 1955.
Read morePatricio Pron
Patricio Pron is the author of six volumes of short prose, among them El mundo sin las personas que lo afean y lo arruinan (The World Without People Who Ruin It and Make It Ugly, 2010), La vida interior de las plantas de interior (The Inner Life of Indoor Plants, 2013), Lo que está y no se usa nos fulminará (What Lies Unused Will Vanquish Us, 2018) and Trayéndolo todo de regreso a casa (Bringing it All Back Home, 2021). He has also written seven novels, including El comienzo de la primavera (The Beginning of Spring, 2008), El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia (My Fathers’ Ghost is Climbing in the Rain, 2011), Nosotros caminamos en sueños (We Walk in Dreams, 2014), No derrames tus lágrimas por nadie que viva en estas calles (Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets, 2016) and Mañana tendremos otros nombres (Tomorrow We Will Have Other Names, 2019). His essays are found in El libro tachado: prácticas de la negación y del silencio en la crisis de la literatura (The Strikethrough Book: Negation and Silencing Practices in the Crisis of Literature, 2014) and No, no pienses en un conejo blanco: literatura, dinero, tiempo, influencia, falsificación, crítica, futuro (No, Don’t Imagine a White Rabbit: Literature, Money, Time, Influence, Forgery, Criticism, Future, 2022).
Read moreJ. Robert Lennon
J. Robert Lennon is the author of three short story collections and ten novels, including Broken River, Subdivision, and Hard Girls. He lives in Ithaca, New York.
Read moreGregory Spatz
Gregory Spatz’s most recent books are What Could Be Saved (connected stories and novellas) and Inukshuk (a novel). His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Southern Review, The New England Review, Kenyon Review, Santa Monica Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Zyzzyva, and in many other journals. He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship and a Washington State Book Award. He lives in Spokane, WA, and directs the creative writing MFA at Eastern Washington University.
Read moreSalar Abdoh
Salar Abdoh’s latest novel, Out of Mesopotamia, was a NYTimes Editor’s Choice and voted a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly. His forthcoming book is A Nearby Country Called Love. He teaches creative writing at the City College of New York and divides his time between New York and Tehran.
Read moreDavid Saccone-Braslow
David Saccone-Braslow is a fiction writer currently living in East Harlem. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York. He is also an Editorial Associate at FICTION and a US Marine Corps veteran.
Read moreSara Ludy
Sara Ludy (b. 1980, Orange, CA) is an American artist and composer working in a wide range of media, including painting, AI, VR, video, photography, websites, installation, and sound. Through an interdisciplinary practice, hybrid forms emerge from the confluence of nature and simulation to explore notions of immateriality and being. Previous exhibitions of Ludy’s work include the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Vancouver Art Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, Berkeley Art Museum, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Her work has been featured in Modern Painters, The New York Times, Art Forum, Art in America, and Cultured Magazine. Sara lives and works in Placitas, New Mexico.
Read moreLeah Kogen-Elimeliah
Leah Kogen-Elimeliah is a poet and writer, originally from Moscow. She earned her MFA from the City College of New York, where she is currently an adjunct assistant professor. Founder and director of WordShedNYC reading series and an Editorial Associate for Fiction magazine, Leah has collaborated on various poetry/visual/dance projects with independent artists, experimenting with cross genres, multimedia, and poetry. Her writing focuses on identity, language, sexuality, and culture.
Read moreSommer Schafer
Sommer Schafer received her MFA from San Francisco State University in 2013. Her fiction is currently and forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Hobart, The 3288 Review, Glimmer Train, Santa Monica Review, China Grove, Room, A Bad Penny Review and others. She lives with her husband and two children in San Rafael, California, and helps edit The Forge Literary Magazine. Visit her at www.sommerschafer.com
Fiction Stories by Sommer Schafer
The Gorge
Number 62
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in Vienna 1924. His three novels, Amerika, The Trial, and The Castle, were unfinished and published posthumously.
Read moreRoss Benjamin
Ross Benjamin’s translations include Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion, Joseph Roth’s Job, and Daniel Kehlmann’s You Should Have Left and Tyll. He was awarded the 2010 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar’s Speak, Nabokov, and he received a Guggenheim fellowship for his work on Franz Kafka’s diaries.
Read moreAkhil Sharma
Akhil Sharma has worked as a reporter for United Press International in New Delhi and written for several newspapers in Thailand and Hong Kong. Fiction is the second magazine to publish his stories.
Read moreRobert Poole
Robert Poole has studied writing in North Carolina, Florida, and New Hampshire.
Read moreJoyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates’s most recent books are Because It is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (Dutton) and I Lock the Door Myself (Ecco).
Read moreKirk Nesset
Kirk Nesset has published work in Descant, The Pacific Review, Permafrost, Seattle Review, and South Dakota Review. His book on Raymond Carver is due out next year.
Read moreAvraham Reisen
Avraham Reisen (1876 - 1953) was born in Kaidanov, near Minsk, White Russia. He received a traditional Jewish education and was tutored privately in secular subjects, including Russian and German. In 1908, Reisen’s first collection of works was published. He emigrated to the United States in 1914 and spent the rest of his life in New York City. In 1991, The Overlook Press will publish the first collection of Reisen’s fiction in English.
Read moreCurt Leviant
Curt Leviant has translated from Shalom Aleichem, Chaim Grade, and other Yiddish writers. He is also the author of three novels, the latest of which is The Man Who Thought He Was Messiah (Jewish Publication Society).
Read moreMary Anne Koehler
Mary Anne Koehler graduated from Princeton University and lived in Baltimore. She has published fiction in Baltimore City Lights and The Nassau Literary Review, and is now working on a novel.
Read moreAmy Herrick
Amy Herrick is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has published stories in The Indiana Review, The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, and other journals. A past recipient of a GE Younger Writers Award, she is now at work on a novel entitled At the Sign of the Naked Waiter, to be published by HarperCollins in fall 1991.
Read moreEmily Hammond
Emily Hammond has recently completed a collection of stories. Her fiction has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Crazyhorse, Nimrod, and Prism International.
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