Benjamin Swett, a writer and photographer, lives in New York City. His books experimenting with photographs and text include Route 22 (Quantuck Lane Press, 2007) and New York City of Trees (Quantuck Lane Press, 2013), which won the 2013 New York City Book Award for Photography. “The Picture Not Taken” is part of a series of essays on the experience of photography and was chosen as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2020. Others in the series have appeared or are forthcoming in Salmagundi, Orion, and Agni.
Read moreVáclav Paris
Václav Paris teaches Comparative Literature at The City College of New York. He is currently writing a book about modernism and evolutionary theory. He is also a lover of languages, a translator, a cyclist, and a pedestrian.
Read moreEzra Zonana
Ezra Zonana’s work has appeared in The Ledge, and most recently in The Sun. For many years he was a student and teacher at The Writers Studio in New York City. His work has previously been published in Fiction Vol. 9, #3.
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Read moreD. J. Thielke
D. J. Thielke’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in New England Review, Bat City Review, EPOCH, The Colorado Review, Ninth Letter, Mid-AmericanReview, and Crazyhorse, among others. A graduate of the MFA program at Vanderbilt University, where she was Editor in Chief of the Nashville Review, her fellowships include the James C. McCreight Fiction Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Fiction at Colgate University. Most recently, she was named the 2018 winner of the Gulf Coast Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, as selected by Roxane Gay. You can learn more about her work at djthielke.com.
Read moreHeather E. Goodman
Heather E. Goodman’s fiction has been published in Gray’s Sporting Journal, Witness, Shenandoah, Crab Orchard Review, and The Chicago Tribune, where her story won the Nelson Algren Award. She teaches high school students and lives in a log cabin along a creek in Pennsylvania with her husband Paul and pooch Leo.
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Read moreJames Goho
James Goho is a fiction and non-fiction author who lives in Winnipeg, Canada. His short stories have appeared in literary magazines in Canada and the USA. His non-fiction essays have appeared in USA, UK, and Ireland journals. Rowman & Littlefield published his book Journeys Into Darkness: Critical Essays on Gothic Horror, and McFarland published his study of Caitlín R. Kiernan. He is currently compiling a collection of his short fiction. His Twitter handle is @JamesGoho and is on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/jamesgoho.
Read moreRuth Schemmel
Ruth Schemmel’s work has appeared in New Orleans Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. She lives near Seattle with her family.
Read moreSam Ramos
Sam Ramos’ fiction and essays have appeared in The Austin Chronicle, Badlands, The Chicago Tribune Printers Row Journal, Hobart, Hyperallergic, and others. His essay, “On Leaving Dove Springs,” was selected as a notable in Best American Essays 2015. His novel, LA GLORIA, was longlisted for the 2018 Dzanc Fiction Prize. His most recent novel, GHOST BOX, is currently under construction. He lives in Chicago.
Read moreMara Lee Grayson
Mara Lee Grayson’s work has appeared in Columbia Journal, CutBank, Fiction, Nimrod, Pedestal, Poetry Northwest, West Trade Review, and other publications. Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes. An award-winning scholar of rhetorics of racism and antisemitism, Grayson has authored multiple books of nonfiction. She holds an MFA from The City College of New York and a PhD from Columbia University. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Grayson resides in Southern California and works as an associate professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Read moreMarc Palmieri
Marc Palmieri is an assistant professor at Mercy College’s School of Liberal Arts in Dobbs Ferry, NY, and a longtime guest faculty member of The City College of New York’s MFA program in Creative Writing. His plays, all published by Dramatists Play Service, include NY Times’ “Critic’s Pick” Levittown as well as The Groundling, Carl the Second, and Waiting for the Host. An excerpt from a novel in progress, When I Wore Floods, is published in Fiction issue #59, and his short story, IQ Test, in issue #64. He has also published short form memoir in The Global City Review and (Re) An Ideas Journal. His screenplays include Miramax Films’ Telling You. Marc graduated from Wake Forest University in 1994, where he played baseball, and was drafted as a pitcher by the Toronto Blue Jays. He received both his MA and MFA in creative writing from CCNY. His memoir, She Danced with Lightning, about life with his daughter’s struggle with epilepsy, is published by Post Hill Press (August, 2022).
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Read moreMax Frisch
Max Frisch was born in Zurich in 1911. His books, which include I’m Not Stiller, Bluebeard and Man in the Holocene are published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich under the Helen and Curt Wolff imprint. His novella William Tell appeared in Fiction Volume 6, Number 1.
Read moreThomas Gladysz
Thomas Gladysz is the author of a number of articles on early cinema, as well as four books on Louise Brooks and her films. A couple more are in the works. Gladysz has contributed to the Red Cedar Review, Film International, San Francisco Review of Books, LitHub, Huffington Post and elsewhere. He is also the Director of the Louise Brooks Society, which he launched online in 1995.
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Read moreSilvina Ocampo
Silvina Ocampo (1903–1993) was born to an old and prosperous family in Buenos Aires, the youngest of six sisters. After studying painting with Giorgio de Chirico and Fernand Léger in Paris, she returned to her native city—she would live there for the rest of her life—and devoted herself to writing. Her eldest sister, Victoria, was the founder of the seminal modernist journal and publishing house Sur, which championed the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, whom Ocampo married in 1940. The first of Ocampo’s seven collections of stories, Viaje olvidado (Forgotten Journey), appeared in 1937 (one of which, “Florindo Flodiola,” is featured in Fiction No. 64); the first of her seven volumes of poems, Enumeración de la patria (Enumeration of My Country) followed in 1942. She was also a prolific translator of Dickinson, Poe, Melville, and Swedenborg, and wrote plays and tales for children. The writer and filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky once wrote, “For decades, Silvina Ocampo was the best kept secret of Argentine letters.”
Read moreAdolfo Bioy Casares
Adolfo Bioy Casares is the author of Diary of the War of the Pig, A Plan for Escape, Asleep in the Sun, and The invention of Morel. He collaborated with Jorge Luis Borges on several fictions and co-wrote Those Who Love, Also Hate (excerpted in Fiction Volume 10, Numbers 1 & 2) with his wife, Silvina Ocampo.
Read moreG.D. Peters
G.D. Peters' short stories have appeared in Folio, South Dakota Review, Sulphur River Literary Review, and more than half a dozen additional literary magazines and journals. His story "Mean Yellow Jacket" appeared in Mastering Suspense, Structure & Plot by Jane K. Cleland (Writer's Digest Books, 2016). In 2009 he received his MFA from The City College of New York, where he currently teaches literature and creative writing. He also teaches at Lehman College and the Bard College Harlem Clemente Course in the Humanities.
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Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann, 1930
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) won the Nobel Prize for such works as Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, and Doctor Faustus. “Avenged” published in FICTION Volume 14 Number 1 for the first time in English, appeared in Six Early Stories, a collection of previously untranslated stories (Sun & Moon Press, 1997).
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Avenged
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Chris Wiberg
Chris Wiberg is a Chicago-based writer and editor. His work has appeared in Ninth Letter, The North Atlantic Review, Folio, and Crab Orchard Review. He has taught creative writing at the University of Illinois, where he earned his MFA, and at the University of Chicago Graham School. He has recently completed a novel about the comic book industry of the 1980s and ’90s.
Read moreDavid Ryan
David Ryan’s work appears in the current issues of Conjunctions, Diagram, and the Harvard Review. Recent work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Kenyon Review, Bellevue Literary Journal, The Southampton Review, and elsewhere. A 2020 Artistic Excellence Fellow with the Connecticut Office of the Arts, he is the author of the story collection Animals in Motion and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and in New England College’s low residency program. There’s more about him at www.davidwryan.com.
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Read moreMelissa Ostrom
Melissa Ostrom is the author of The Beloved Wild (Feiwel & Friends, 2018), a Junior Library Guild book and an Amelia Bloomer Award selection, and Unleaving (Feiwel & Friends, 2019). Her short stories have appeared in The Florida Review, Fourteen Hills, Passages North, and Ruminate, among other journals, and been selected for The Best Small Fictions 2019 and The Best Microfiction 2020. She teaches English at Genesee Community College and lives with her husband and children in Holley, New York. Reach her at www.melissaostrom.com or on Twitter @melostrom.
Read moreShelly Oria
Shelly Oria is the author of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014) and the editor of Indelible in the Hippocampus, Writings from the MeToo Movement (McSweeney’s 2019). Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review and on Selected Shorts at Symphony Space, has received a number of awards, and has been translated into several languages. Oria lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she has a private practice as a life and creativity coach. Her website is www.shellyoria.com.
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