Russell Banks’ novels include Hamilton Stark and The Book of Jamaica. “The Child Screams and Looks Back at You” is from Trailerpark, a book of fiction due from Houghton Mifflin in late 1981. Other sections of the book are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Mississippi Review, Sun & Moon, Shenandoah, and The Boston Globe Magazine.
Read moreInés Arredondo
Inés Arredondo, born in 1928 in Culiacan, Sinoloa, Mexico, studied drama at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, and was a fellow at the Centro Mexicano de Escritores. She has taught at Indiana University, and lived in Montevideo from 1963 to 1964. In 1965 she published La senal, of which ”Mariana” is a selection. In 1979 she won the prestigious Villaurrutia Prize for fiction with her second book of short stories, Rio subterraneo, published by Joaquin Mortiz. She now lives in Mexico.
Read moreReindaldo Arenas
Reindaldo Arenas, born in Cuba in 1943, left there during the 1980 exodus. He has writtern three novels of a projected five-novel cycle, Hallucinations (El mundo alucinante), which has been published in English, Celestino ante el alba (Celestino Before Dawn), and El palacio de las blanqu í simas mofetas (The Palace of Pure White Skunks). He now lives in New York City.
Read moreNaomie Jean-Pierre
Naomie Jean-Pierre is a graduate student in the European joint master’s program in English and American studies at the City College of New York.
Read moreKatie L. Jan
Katie L. Jan is a PhD candidate at University of California, Santa Barbara, and co-editor, with Suzanne Jill Levine, of Untranslatability Goes Global (Routledge, 2018).
Read moreAviva Kana
Aviva Kana is a translator, researcher and instructor from Washington State. Currently a PhD candidate in Hispanic literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, her work focuses on Latin American literature, gender, translation and applied linguistics. Her translations have been published in Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, PEN America and Latin American Literature Today. Her translation (in collaboration with Suzanne Jill Levine) of Cristina Rivera Garza’s El mal de la taiga (The Taiga Syndrome) will be published in the fall of 2018.
Read moreLeia Menlove
Leia Menlove’s work has appeared in The Harvard Review, Guernica, Narratively, Catapult, Joyland, Wut, and other publications. She is the author of the fabulist feminist novella How to Train Your Virgin, which was released by Badlands Unlimited and ArtBook, and was featured in The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum After Dark Series, “Conversations with Artists and Writers.” She studied literature and video games at the University of Michigan, and received her MFA in fiction from The New School.
Read moreChristina Rivera-Garza
Christina Rivera-Garza is an author, translator and critic. The recipient of The Roger Caillois Award for Latin American Literature (Paris, 2013); as well as the Anna Seghers (Berlin, 2005); she twice won the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, in 2001 for her novel Nadie me verá llorar (No One Will See Me Cry) and again in 2009 for her novel La muerte me da. She has developed transnational cross-genre projects with artists and musicians. Born on the US-Mexico border (Matamoros, 1964), she has lived in the United States since 1989. She is currently the distinguished professor of Hispanic studies and creative writing at the University of Houston, and director of its PhD creative writing program in Spanish. She swims. A translation of The Taiga Syndrome by Aviva Kana and Suzanne Jill Levine will be published in Dorothy, a publishing project in the fall of 2018.
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Andrew Wickenden
Andrew Wickenden is a writer, editor, and gardener living in Michigan. His prose has appeared in The Drift, Glimmer Train, Post Road, Witness, and elsewhere. He documents his horticultural endeavors on Instagram @gardening_withnature.
Read moreGloria L. Huang
Gloria L. Huang is a freelance writer. Her fiction has been accepted for publication in literary journals, including Michigan Quarterly Review, The Threepenny Review, Witness, The Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, Southern Humanities Review, North American Review, Arts & Letters, Washington Square Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Gargoyle Magazine, Sycamore Review, and The Antigonish Review. She received her B.A. in English literature from Stanford University. She is represented by Laura Cameron and Amanda Orozco at Transatlantic Agency.
Read moreYolande Brener
Yolande Brener has worked as an actress, filmmaker, singer in an all-girl band, and disciple of an alleged Messiah. The story behind her award-winning memoir, Holy Candy, was featured in Fabulous Magazine, The Sun, the Daily Mail, Metro UK, Take a Break, ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Reelz’s Cult of Personality, and Bella Magazine. Her work has been published in New York Press, Fiction, Promethean, (Re) An Ideas Journal, and Harlem World Magazine. Her short story, "Swan Sister',' is featured in Seal Press’s Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions. Brener’s short films as part of Brenimara have won five awards. Yolande Brener teaches English at the City College of New York and the Borough of Manhattan Community College. She is currently working on a graphic memoir version of Holy Candy.
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Read moreConstantine Jones
Constantine Jones is the managing editor of Fiction and an adjunct lecturer at the City College of New York, where he earned his MFA.
Read moreRoger Angell
Roger Angell, a senior fiction editor at The New Yorker, has been contributing stories and essays there since 1944. The author of ten books including The Summer Game, Let Me Finish, and most recently a collection of essays, This Old Man. Angell won the prize for Essays & Criticism awarded by The American Society of Magazine Editors in 2015 for his essay “This Old Man.” Among other honors, he has been the recipient of a George Polk Award and a PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. Angell was the longtime editor at The New Yorker of the National Book Award winner Donald Barthelme.
Read moreMary Marcus
Mary Marcus is the author of the novels, The New Me (2014) and Lavina (2015). Her fiction has appeared in the North Atlantic Review, The New Delta Review and elsewhere. She writes a weekly flash fiction for her website and is at work on a mystery. Her work was previously published in Fiction No. 54.
Read moreKalisha Buckhanon
Kalisha Buckhanon is the author of the novels Solemn (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006), Conception (St. Martin’s Press, 2016), and Upstate (St. Martin’s Press, 2008). Her honors include a Literary Fiction Audie Award, American Library Association ALEX Award, Friends of American Writers Award, Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, Pushcart Prize, Hurston-Wright Awards nominations, and special Young Author award from novelist Terry McMillan. “Searching on 147th Street” is from Speaking of Summer, due out in the summer of 2019 from Counterpoint.
Read moreMichael Broida
Michael Broida’s work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Los Angeles Times, and The Times Literary Supplement, among others. He graduated with an MFA from Johns Hopkins in 2018, spending the following year as a Fulbright grantee in Portugal.
Read moreRosemary Harp
Rosemary Harp is a Chicago-based writer of fiction and essays. Her work has appeared most recently in Electric Lit, Everyday Fiction, and Pithead Chapel and has been featured in a number of other journals as well. Harp holds a BA from the University of Michigan and an MA from the University of Virginia. She recently completed her first novel.
Read moreSheila Kohler
Sheila Kohler is the author of eleven novels, three collections of short stories, and a memoir, Once We Were Sisters. Kohler has been awarded the O. Henry twice, two of her stories have been included in Best American Short Stories, and her story “Miss Martin” was in Best American Mystery Stories 2020. Her work has been translated and published widely abroad. She has taught creative writing at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence, the City College of New York, and Princeton since 2007. She was a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in 2003-2004 and a visiting writer at the American Academy of Rome in 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2022. Her novel, Cracks, has been filmed with Jordan Scott as director, Ridley Scott as executive producer, and Eva Green playing Miss G; and is being republished this January with Open Road.
Read moreJames Terry
James Terry’s fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Georgia Review, The Dublin Review, The South Dakota Review, The Connecticut Review, The Notre Dame Review, Pleiades, The Barcelona Review, Fourteen Hills, Failbetter, and elsewhere. His stories have been nominated for the Pushcart and O. Henry prizes. He is the author of a short story collection, Kingdom of the Sun (University of New Mexico Press, 2016), and two novels, The Solitary Woman of Shakespeare (Sandstone, 2016), which was shortlisted for the 2017 HWA Debut Crown Award, and Heir Apparent (Skyhorse, 2019). His work has previously been published in Fiction No. 55 and No. 58. He lives in Liverpool, England.
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