Suzanne Jill Levine, a scholar and writer, has translated a number of the most prominent Latin American authors. A Guggenheim fellow in a career of many other honors, she is now a distinguished professor emerita of the University of California. Among her recent publications are unique works by Silvina Ocampo for City Lights, a five-volume edition of Jorge Luis Borges’s poetry and nonfictions for Penguin paperback classics, Untranslatability Goes Global, edited for Routledge, and her translation of Guadalupe Nettel’s Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories (Seven Stories Press, 2020). Her articles, essays and translations have appeared in scores of websites, anthologies and journals including The New Yorker and many past issues of FICTION. Her books include a literary biography of Manuel Puig (FSG, Faber and Faber) and the influential Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction.
Read moreCara Bayles
CARA BAYLES’ writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, J Journal, Raritan, Fiction, Meridian (University of Virginia), Chautauqua Literary Journal, Ruminate, and Trop. In 2014, she was awarded a Steinbeck Fellowship to work on her first novel. As an award-winning journalist, she spent six years covering the streets of Boston and the bayous of southern Louisiana.
Fiction Stories by Cara Bayles
Sunk
No. 62
Michael Caleb tasker
Michael Caleb Tasker
Winner of the 2014 Ernest Hemmingway flash fiction award, MICHAEL CALEB TASKER was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1980 and spent his childhood in Montreal, New Orleans and Buenos Aires. He has been published in numerous literary journals including Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, The Bellevue Literary Review, and was runner-up in the 2014 John Steinbeck award for short fiction. He currently lives in Australia.
Fiction Stories by Michael Caleb Tasker
Lara Vapnyar
Lara Vapnyar
LARA VAPNYAR came to the US from Russia in 1994. She is the author of three novels and two collections of short stories. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, and Goldberg Prize for Jewish fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s, and The New Republic. Her most recent novel is Still Here.
Fiction Stories by Lara Vapnyar
Alan Rossi
Alan Rossi
ALAN ROSSI’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Granta, The Atlantic, New England Review, Missouri Review, The Florida Review, Ninth Letter, and many other journals. His fiction was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 2015. He teaches high school and lives in South Carolina with his wife and various woodland creatures.
Fiction Stories by Alan Rossi
Steve Stern
Steve Stern
STEVE STERN, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, is the author of several previous novels and story collections. His most recent book is a novel, The Pinch. He writes that “he leads an essentially posthumous life in upstate NY—which is in some ways better than the life he led when he was still alive. At least in this one he got the girl.”
Fiction Stories by Steve Stern
Gwen Goodkin
Gwen Goodkin
GWEN GOODKIN’s writing has been published by Witness, The Carolina Quarterly, The Dublin Review, The Rumpus, Atticus Review, and others. She is the recipient of the John Steinbeck Award, Her website is gwengoodkin.com
Fiction Stories by Gwen Goodkin
Claudia Camaj
CLAUDIA CAMAJ was born in Queens, New York, in 1994, the daughter of two parents who came to the United States from Albania. She has attended the City College of New York since 2012. “I Don't Want to Write About This So I Will” is her first publication, one of a series of short pieces about drugs and abuse. She writes that her older sister, Sylvia, has been her “biggest inspiration.
Fiction Stories by Claudia Camaj
Richard Wirick
RICHARD WIRICK is the author of the mixed-genre collection One Hundred Siberian Postcards (Telegram Books, 2006), a London Times Notable Book of 2007 and a nominee for the PEN/Bingham Award for Best First Work by an American Author. It was followed by Kicking In (Counterpoint, 2010), a collection of stories. His novel The Devil’s Water was just published by Ekstasis (Canada) and Counterpoint (US). Another story collection, Fables of Rescue, and the essay collection Hat of Candles, will see publication in 2017. He is a senior and founding editor at the quarterly Transformation and writes for a variety of periodicals in the U.S. and U.K. He practices environmental law in Los Angeles, where he lives with his family. He wishes to dedicate this story to Kirk Luther.
Fiction Stories by Richard Wirick
James Boice
James Boice (born in 1982).
JAMES BOICE’s fourth novel, The Shooting, comes out in September 2016 from Unnamed Press. His work has been in McSweeney’s Salt Hill, Post Road, and Esquire. He grew up in Northern Virginia and lives in New York with his family.
Fiction Stories by James Boice
Crystal Joy Vagnier
Crystal Joy Vagnier
CRYSTAL JOY VAGNIER received an MFA in creative Writing from The City College of New York. Her work has twice been awarded The David Dortort Prize in NonFiction and three times The Henry Roth Memorial Scholarship. Her work has appeared in Promethean, The Billfold, and other publications
Fiction Stories by Crystal Joy Vagnier
Emily Anderson
EMILY ANDERSON is the author of Little: Novels (Blaze VOX, 2015), which creates an alternative series to Laura Wilder’s Little House novels. Most recently, her writing has appeared in Harpers, Conjunctions, and Best American Experimental Writing 2015. She is a PhD candidate at SUNY-Buffalo. Find her on Twitter @little_novels or visit her website, emily-anderson.net
Fiction Stories by Emily Anderson
Maxim Loskutoff
MAXIM LOSKUTOFF was raised in western Montana. His stories have appeared in The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Witness, and Narrative. A graduate of NYU’s MFA program, he was the recipient of a Global Writing Fellowship in Abu Dhabi. Other honors include The Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award, the Bevel Summers Prize, and fellowships from Writers Omi at Ledig House, Ox-Bow, and Jentel Arts. He has worked as a carpenter, field organizer, bookseller, and creative writing teacher, among many other things.
Fiction Stories by Maxim Loskutoff
Too Much Love
No. 62
H. Bustos Domecq
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.
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