Stories by San Francisco novelist Lia Smith have been published in Seventeen, Ms., Bamboo Ridge, and FICTION. Muni Is My Ride: Portraits of Muni in Words and Images, a collaboration with artist Keith Ferris, is now in its third printing (Ithuriel’s Spear, 2023). She is currently sending out two novels: Modine and A Perfect Wife. In 2023, her piece Lucille won a juried contest (Short Édition) and 3:AM published her essay on artist Tina Mion.
Read moreZury Cordova is a first-year student at the Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, pursuing a bachelor's degree in communications, and a minor in creative writing. She is passionate about creative expression and spends her free time journaling, writing, and painting. Her favorite authors include Sylvia Plath, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Neruda, and Sandra Cisneros.
Read moreSuzanne 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 moreH. 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 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 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’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.
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Marc Palmieri is a professor, a writer, an actor, and even a baseball coach having once played for the Toronto Blue Jays. His plays, such as Waiting for the Host, Poor Fellas, and NY Times’ “Critic’s Pick” Levittown have been performed not only in New York City but around the country. His script for Telling You was produced by Miramax and stars Jennifer Love Hewitt.