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.
Read moreAlbert J. Guerard
Albert J. Guerard’s “The Blue Notebook of Charles Stanfield: 1922” is from his new novel The Hotel in the Jungle. He has published six other novels, among them Christine/Annette, and six books of literary criticism, the latest being The Triumph of the Novel: Dickens, Dostoevsky, Faulkner.
Read morePhillip Graham
Phillip Graham is a graduate of the City College of New York program in creative writing. He is the author of The Vanishings (prose poems) and most recently The Art of the Knock (short stories), and has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Washington Post Magazine, and other magazines. He teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Read moreUri Nissan Gnessin
Uri Nissan Gnessin (1881 – 1913) was born in the Ukraine and wandered through Europe and to Eretz Israel (Palestine) before returning to Russia. One of the first to introduce devices of modern fiction into Hebrew literature, Gnessin wrote about the dilemma of the Jew detached from Eastern European roots, trying to live as a cosmopolitan citizen of the twentieth century.
Read moreIrvin Faust
Irvin Faust is a graduate of the City College of New York and has a doctorate from Columbia University Teachers College. He is the author of six novels, among them The Steagle and Willy Remembers, and two short story collections, Roar Lion Roar and The Year of the Hot Jock. Most recently he was published in an anthology of Jewish-American fiction in Italy.
Read moreKelly Cherry
Kelly Cherry’s most recent book of fiction, a novel in stories titled My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers, was published in Algonquin Books in 1990. She has published four other novels and three books of poems, most recently Natural Theology (Louisiana State University Press, 1988. In 1989 she received the first Fellowship of Southern Writers Poetry Award, “in recognition of a distinguished body of work.” Louisiana State University Press will publish her first book of nonfiction in 1991.
Read moreJane Brox
Corinne Demas Bliss
Corinne Demas Bliss is the author of a novel, The Same River Twice (Atheneum), and a collection of short stories, Daffodils of the Death of Love (University of Missouri Press). Her short stories have appeared in numerous publications, including Esquire, McCall’s, Mademoiselle, Ploughshares, Redbook, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.
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