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 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 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.
Read moreJuan Carlos Onetti (1909–94), winner of the Cervantes Prize in 1980, was a Latin American novelist known for his brilliant narrative technique in a realist mode. He won Uruguay’s National Literature Prize in 1962; imprisoned there in 1974, upon release, he fled to Spain. His works in English include The Goodbyes, A Brief Life, The Shipyard, and Body Snatcher.
Read moreNoelle Marie Nagales is a Filipino-American contemporary novelist and the author of The way we love. Born in Santa Clara, CA, and raised in Queens, New York, her work primarily focuses on existentialist fiction—inspired by prose and poetry and Japanese literature. Her first novel received The Dortort Family Undergraduate Prize in Creative Writing in 2015, and her short stories have been published in various magazines. She is currently an assistant adjunct professor at The City College of New York and Baruch College, where she teaches English composition and creative writing.
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Read moreRobert Musil (1880–1942) was an Austrian writer, philosopher, experimental psychologist, and engineer. Famous for his unfinished novel The Man Without Qualities, Musil also wrote stories, essays, and plays. FICTION has previously published work from his Diaries, plays, and letters. FICTION No. 64 saw a new translation of “The Completion of Love,” with “Notes on the Writing of Unions.
Read moreMark Jay Mirsky, professor of English at The City College of New York published his first novel, Thou Worm Jacob, in 1967, succeeded by Proceedings of the Rabble, in 1971, Blue Hill Avenue in 1972, and a collection of short novellas and stories, The Secret Table, in 1975 with a cover by Donald Barthelme. In 1977, Mirsky published My Search for the Messiah, a collection of essays including sketches of major Jewish thinkers: Harry Wolfson, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, and Gershom Scholem.
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Read moreKatie Edkins Milligan is a fiction writer from Maine, currently living and working in Texas. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Tahoma Literary Review and North Dakota Quarterly, and she is the 2021 recipient of the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Fiction. She is the fiction editor at Gulf Coast and an MFA candidate at the University of Houston, where she is an Inprint Brown Foundation Fellow. She has received support from the GrubStreet Short Story Incubator program, the Aspen Summer Words Workshop and the Southampton Writers Conference. Find her at www.katieedkinsmilligan.com.
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Read moreRobert Garner McBrearty is the author of five books of fiction, most recently When I Can’t Sleep, a collection of flash fiction. His stories have appeared in many places including the Pushcart Prize, The Missouri Review, New England Review, Narrative and North American Review. His stories have received many awards, including the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award. He currently teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in the Denver area.
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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 moreJennifer Herman-Kircher’s work is published in numerous literary journals, including North American Review, Prairie Schooner Hobart, Alaska Quarterly Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, The Rumpus, American Literary Review, and The Nebraska Review, where it also won the Fiction Prize. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she holds an MFA 251 from Emerson College. She is working on a novel and a collection of linked fiction, which includes her story “Past Lives,” in Number 65 of FICTION.
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Read moreDavid Hayden’s writing has appeared in gorse, The Yellow Nib, The Moth, The Stinging Fly, Spolia, Zoetrope, and The Warwick Review, and poetry in PN Review. He was shortlisted for the 25th RTÉ Francis MacManus Short Story prize. Born in Dublin, he has lived in the US and Australia and is now based in Norwich, UK. His debut collection of stories, DARKER WITH THE LIGHTS ON, was published by Transit Books in the US and praised by Eimear McBride.
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Read moreInger Johanne Grytting is a painter living and working in New York City. In 2018 her work was exhibited in Light Lines, The Work of Jan Groth, Inger Johanne Grytting and Thomas Pihl, at Scandinavia House, New York. Her work can be found in the collections of The National Museum of Art Architecture and Design, Oslo, and in the Stavanger Art Museum. For more info: grytting.org.
Read moreGenese Grill is the author of The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities: Possibility as Reality (Camden House, 2012), and has edited and translated Musil's Thought Flights (2015), Unions (2019), Theater Symptoms (2020), and Robert Musil: Literature and Politics by Klaus Amann and Robert Musil (forthcoming in 2022), all published by Contra Mundum Press. She is also the author of many literary and philosophical essays, collected under the title Portals: Reflections on the Spirit in Matter.
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Read moreAnnette Gilson has published New Light, a novel, with Black Heron Press, and is at work on several others. She got her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis and has essays and reviews in a number of journals. She directs the creative writing program at Oakland University in Michigan.
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Read moreJohn Fulton has published three books of fiction: Retribution, which won The Southern Review Short Fiction Award, the novel More Than Enough, and The Animal Girl, which was short listed for the Story Prize. His fiction has been awarded the Pushcart Prize and been published in several journals, including Zoetrope, Oxford American, The Missouri Review, and The Southern Review. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
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Read moreRob Ehle’s fiction has appeared in The New England Review, Epoch, Zyzzyva, American Short Fiction, and similar magazines. The art director at Stanford University Press and a former Stegner Fellow, he is currently working on a historical novel set in late nineteenth-century California, among other projects.
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Read moreRusty Dolleman lives in Maine with his family. His novella The Megabucks won the 2015 Clay Reynolds Novella prize and was published by Texas Review Press.
Read moreJanice Deal is currently working on a collection of linked short stories, Sick Beasts, which explores the fictional town of Ephrem, Illinois. Her work has won the Cagibi Macaron Prize for fiction, and has appeared in magazines including the Ontario Review, The Sun, Catamaran Literary Reader, and Zone 3. Her first story collection, The Decline of Pigeons, was published by Queen’s Ferry Press in 2013. Learn more about her at janicedeal.com.
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Read moreRyan Choi is the author of the forthcoming book In Dreams & Other Stories: The Very Short Works of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (London: Paper + Ink, 2021). His work has appeared in The Southern Review, BOMB, Harper’s Magazine, Tin House, and The Yale Review. He lives in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, where he was born and raised. A recent interview with him can be found on the web at: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/06/13/the-colorless-room-an-interview-with-ryanchoi/ and a list of publications at http://www.ryanckchoi.com.
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