Leah 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.

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Sommer 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

 

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Ross 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.

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Avraham 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.

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Amy 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.

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Phillip 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.

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Irvin 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.

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Kelly 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.

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