Tara Moss is an internationally bestselling author, human rights activist, documentary and podcast host, and model. Her crime novels have been published in nineteen countries and thirteen languages, and her memoir, The Fictional Woman, was a #1 international bestseller. Her most recent novel The Ghosts of Paris follows the The War Widow, an international bestseller and the first book in the Billie Walker series. Tara is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and has received the Edna Ryan Award for significant contributions to feminist debate and for speaking out on behalf of women and children. In 2017, Tara Moss was recognized as one of the Global Top 50 Diversity Figures in Public Life. Moss lives in Victoria with her family.

Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu was born and raised in Nairobi and moved to the United States to attend college in 1998. She has an MA in Journalism from Columbia University and has worked as a journalist in New York City, Washington D.C. and Boston. She later received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town, graduating with distinction. Her fictional work has been published in Yale Review and Adda, and she has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Lucky Girl is her debut novel.

Sara Mychkine (she/they) is a poet, writer, performer and independent researcher in art history. They are the author of two poetry collections, La plaie de l’aube (Blast, 2024) and L’éthé (2022), and of a novel, De minuit à minuit (Le Bruit du Monde, 2023), and their articles have been published in various publications (CENSORED, DÉBRIDÉ, DO-Kre-I-S, DUNE MAGAZINE...). Their incandescent languages are rooted in black, queer and decolonial eco*feminist worlds.

Mélie is an English and French-speaking Franco-Lebanese author whose writing and research deal with the transmission of stories and inherited silences. They love the idea of rewriting stories that are thought to be frozen. Their podcast, 'Passé Recomposé', in which they interview people about their grandparents, explores collective history through the family stories of anonymous people. Their first book, Contes d'un autre bois, was published by Éditions iXe in 2023. They are currently working on a new novel inspired by Greek mythology.

Raised in the Detroit suburbs, Eliza Nellums now lives with her cat outside Washington DC. Her first novel All That's Bright and Gone was named as an Amazon Editors' Pick for December, received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly and was praised in The Washington Post and Real Simple magazine. She is a member of the Metro Wriders, a weekly critique group that meets in Dupont Circle. Her short story “Changelings” was published in the anthology Magical. An amateur botanist and avid gardener, she divides her time between plants, books, and cats.

Nathan Newman is a 25 y/o non-binary writer based in London. They studied creative writing at NYU where they were mentored by Zadie Smith and their short stories have won awards (James Knudsen Prize for fiction) and been published in literary journals and anthologies. Their debut novel is due to be published by Little Brown in the UK, and Viking Penguin in the USA.

Kevin Nguyen is a senior editor at GQ. He’s written features, profiles, and criticism for the New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Millions, among others. His debut novel New Waves was published by One World in spring 2020.

Matthew Neill Null is the author of the novel Honey from the Lion and the award-winning story collection Allegheny Front, both set in his native West Virginia. Allegheny Front was named a "Best Book of Summer 2016"  by Publishers Weekly,  A "Most Anticipated Book of 2016" by  The Millions and The Masters Review, and one of "Ten Titles to Pick Up Now,"  in O, The Oprah Magazine. His novel Honey from the LIon, won the highest praise from National Book Award winner Jaimy Gordon, who wrote that Null is  “bound to become one of the most admired and influential fiction writers of his generation." His forthcoming new novel is The Floodgate.

Null is the winner of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction, and the Michener–Copernicus Society of America Award. His stories have appeared in both The PEN /O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Mystery Stories. Null holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a fellow at The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.

Mary Otis is the author of the short story collection Yes, Yes, Cherries. Her stories and essays have been published in Best New American Voices, Tin House, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s, Zyzzyva, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books Special Fiction Issue, and in numerous other literary journals. A graduate of Bennington College, she was a Walter Dakin Fellow and has received a Getty Foundation Scholarship. A professor of fiction, she lives in Los Angeles and her novel BURST is forthcoming from Zibby Books.

D. Wystan Owen is the author of the story collection Other People’s Love Affairs, set in the fictional seaside town of Glass on the English coast. Praising the collection, Garth Greenwell wrote, “Owen writes exquisite stories that lodge somewhere in my chest and keep detonating—loudly, devastatingly.” From Yiyun Li: “Writing in the tradition of Chekhov, William Trevor, and Alice Munro, Owen's stories remind us that the thrills and the dangers of living oftentimes go hand-in-hand with the everydayness of life.” And from Pam Houston, “This book is strong medicine for a heart-broken world.” Owen received his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is at work on a novel, A Disorderly House.

Janika Oza is an award-winning writer who has received support from The Millay Colony, Tin House Summer and Winter Workshops, VONA/Voices of Our Nation, and the One Story Summer Writers Conference, and her stories and essays have appeared in publications such as The Best Small Fictions 2019 Anthology, Catapult, The Adroit Journal, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, The Cincinnati Review, Anomaly, and The Malahat Review, among others. Her debut novel, A History ofBurning, is forthcoming in 2023 from Grand Central Publishers (US), McClelland & Stewart (Canada), and Chatto & Windus (UK).

Ann Packer is the acclaimed author of two collections of short fiction, Swim Back to Me and Mendocino and Other Stories, and three bestselling novels, The Children’s Crusade, Songs Without Words, and The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, which received the Kate Chopin Literary Award, among many other prizes and honors. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and in the O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies, and her novels have been published around the world. She and her husband divide their time between New York, the Bay Area, and Maine. Her new novel, SOME BRIGHT NOWHERE, is forthcoming from Harper in 2026

‍Gemma Ruiz Palà (Sabadell, 1975) is a Catalan journalist and a writer. She has worked on the news desk at Televisió de Catalunya since 1996, specialising in cultural affairs. Her debut novel, Argelagues (Proa, 2016) became a literary phenomenon with twelve reprints so far and excellent critical reception. Her second novel, Ca la Wenling, was simultaneously published in Catalan (Proa, 2020) and Spanish (Destino, 2020) and has been translated into English (Heloïse Press) and Italian (Voland).  In 2023 she won the best endowed and the most prestigious prize in Catalan Literature, the Sant Jordi Award, for her third novel Les nostres mares (Proa, 2023).‍

A second-generation Cuban-American, born and raised in the exile community in Miami, Florida, Raul Palma is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Ithaca College. His work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Alimentum, Chattahoochee Review, Greensboro Review, Smokelong Quarterly, and Sonora Review. His short fiction was selected by Aimee Bender for inclusion in Best Small Fictions 2018. His collection of short fiction, IN THESE WORLDS OF ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT was awarded Indiana Review’s 2021 Don Belton Prize, having previously been a finalist for the Review’s Blue Light’s Book Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Iowa Short Fiction Prize.

Andrew Palmer has written about The Bachelor for Slate and The Paris Review Daily. His work has also appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, Indiana Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, the Toast, and the New Yorker's daily "Shouts and Murmurs.” A former Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, he holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University. His debut novel The Bachelor is forthcoming in 2021 from Hogarth.

Seth Panitch is a playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker. He is a Professor of Theatre and heads the MFA Acting program at the University of Alabama. Antique is his first book.

Nishita Parekh, a software programmer, lives in Texas with her husband and son.

Janice Pariat is theauthor of the novel Seahorse, the bestselling novella The Nine-Chambered Heart, and the short story collection Boats on Land. She was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar and the Crossword Book Award for Fiction in 2013. Her art reviews, book reviews, fiction, and poetry has featured in a wide selection of magazines and newspapers across India. In 2014, she was the Charles Wallace Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Kent, UK, and most recently, in 2019, a writer-in-residence at the Toji Cultural Foundation, 21 South Korea. She teaches creative writing and the history of art at Ashoka University and lives in New Delhi, India, with a cat of many names.

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Patricia Park is the author of the debut novel Re Jane, a contemporary Korean-American retelling of Jane Eyre (Pamela Dorman Books/Penguin-Viking). Her essays have been published in the New York Times, the Guardian, and Slice Magazine, among others.

Adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Medicine, where he teaches a course on biological threats to food and agriculture, Parker has formerly served as Acting Director of Homeland Security for the Agricultural Research Service of USDA. He holds a PhD in biological oceanography and has published and lectured on bio- and agroterrorism.

Neel Patel is a first-generation Indian American who grew up in Champaign, Illinois. His debut story collection, If You See Me, Don't Say Hi, was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and was long-listed for the Story Prize and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. He cowrote the screenplay for Doin’ it  with Lily Singh and currently lives in Los Angeles.

Patricia Pearson is an award-winning author and the recipient of three Canadian National Magazine Awards, the Arthur Ellis Award for best Canadian nonfiction crime writing, and a North American Travel Journalism Association award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Toronto Life, Reader’s Digest, The Toronto Star, National Post, The Guardian, The New York Times, More, TheGlobe and Mail, TheDaily Telegraph, Business Week, NPR, CBC Television, The History Channel, and TV Ontario, among many others. In 2003, she was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, Canada’s version of the Mark Twain prize.

Bestselling author of The Manny, The Idea of Him, and Smoke & Fire, Peterson was a producer for ABC News, and a writer and contributing editor for Newsweek.

Marine Peyrard worked in the cultural and popular education sectors before devoting her time to her activities as an author and photographer. Her first poetry work, Viande à viol, was published in 2021 (republished in 2024) and she is the author of the poetic tale La princesse sans reflet, illustrated by Mirion Malle (Éditions Daronnes, 2023). Her first novel, A la fin nous ferons histoire, was published in 2024.

Sebastian J. Plata was born in Poland, grew up in Chicago, and spent most of his twenties living in Tokyo. He is now based in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to writing, he also works as a Japanese/English translator.

Eileen Pollack graduated from Yale with a BS in physics and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of the novels The Professor of Immortality, The Bible of Dirty Jokes, A Perfect Life, and Breaking and Entering, which was named a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection, as well as two collections of short fiction, The Rabbi in the Attic and In the Mouth, which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award. Eileen’s work of creative nonfiction Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull was made into a movie starring Jessica Chastain. Her investigative memoir The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club was published in 2015; a long excerpt appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine and went viral. Her work has been selected for Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, and Best American Travel Writing. Her most recent book, an essay collection called Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman, was published in 2022 by Delphinium Books and received starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus. A former director of the MFA Program at the University of Michigan, she now lives and writes in Boston.

Dan Pope is the author of the novels In the Cherry Tree (Picador) and Housebreaking (Simon & Schuster). He received the Glen Schaeffer Award from the International Institute of Modern Letters and a grant in fiction from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and attended the Iowa Writer’s Workshop on a Truman Capote Fellowship.

Alana S. Portero is a transgender Spanish activist and writer.

Heather Prewitt draws inspiration for her stories from a love of contemporary fantasy and her experience growing up in small towns in the South. She now lives in the Midwest with her wonderful partner and three wily dogs and is a member of the Author’s Guild. When she isn't writing books or advertising copy, she works in accounting and office management. In her leisure time, you can find her reading a good book under a tree or fishing and kayaking on the many lakes and rivers in her area.

Carolyn Prusa has been published in the Charlotte Observer, Greensboro News and Record, Savannah Magazine, and South Magazine, and her taste in literature is as varied as the small objects you might find beneath the seats of her minivan. Surrounded by dudes, she lives in Savannah with her husband, two sons, and giant rescue wookie dog, Dale.

Hanna Pylväinen is the author of the novels We Sinners and The End of Drum-Time, a finalist for the National Book Award. Set in 1851 in a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, The End of Drum-Time it is the story of an ill-fated love affair between a renegade preacher’s daughter and a young reindeer herder. Bestselling author Anthony Marra hails it for “some of the most gorgeous prose imaginable and an extraordinary feat of imagination.” Yiyun Lee says of Plyväinen, she is “one of the most unique voices in American literature.”

Plyväinen’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Harper’s, The Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and she was interviewed on NPR's Weekend Edition. She is the winner of a Whiting award and received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Princeton University, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writing. Plyväinen received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Anne Raeff is the author of the novels Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia, Winter Kept Us Warm, and Only the River and the short story collection The Jungle Around Us, which won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her stories have been published in journals such as The New England Review, Zyzzyva, and Oa.

Zara Raheem received her MFA from California State University, Long Beach. She is the recipient of the James I. Murashige Jr. Memorial award in fiction and was selected as one of 2019's Harriet Williams Emerging Writers. Her debut novel The Marriage Clock was named a "must-read book of the summer” by Cosmopolitan, POPSUGAR, Bustle, BookRiot, among others; and it has already been translated into Italian and Portuguese. Her second novel The Retreat will be forthcoming in 2023, and she is currently working on a short story collection that centers around the South Asian diaspora, the Muslim-American experience, and the struggles and hardships faced by first and second-generation immigrants. She resides in Southern California where she teaches English and creative writing.

Ladette Randolph is the author of the novels A Sandhills Ballad, Haven's Wake, and the forthcoming Private Way; the debut short story collection This Is Not the Tropics; and the memoir Leaving the Pink House.  A Sandhills Ballad was selected as a New York Times Editors Choice, and her work has won the highest praise.  The reviewer of  Haven’s Wake in Booklist  wrote, “Randolph thoughtfully contemplates truth in a world of evasiveness.” Her debut short story collection, This Is Not the Tropics, was hailed by the reviewer for Publishers Weekly as “utterly remarkable…Quite honestly, this is the finest collection I’ve seen in years.” 

A long-time Nebraskan, Randolph spent her childhood in the same part of west-central Nebraska where her family lived for five generations. She is the recipient of four Nebraska Book Awards, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Virginia Faulkner Award, and a citation from Best New American Voices. Recently retired, she was the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Ploughshares at Emerson College for fifteen years.  She lives in the Boston area.

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Devika Rege was born and raised in Pune. Her first novel will be published in 2023 by Fourth Estate, HarperCollins India.

Adam Resnick is the author of Will Not Attend, a pseudo-memoir, and is a television and movie writer who has written for The Larry Sanders Show, Late Night with David Letterman and has authored numerous movies, including the classic Death to Smoochy, directed by Danny DeVito.

Ana Reyes is the New York Times bestselling author of Reese’s Book Club pick The House in the Pines. She has an MFA from Louisiana State University and teaches creative writing. She lives with her husband in Easthampton, Massachusetts.

A keen outdoorsman, David Ricciardi is an avid sailor and has received extensive training from law enforcement and US special operations. These experiences inform his thriller writing, which began with the first book in his Jake Keller series, Warning Light, published by Berkley in 2018.

Ex-graphic designer, Laurier The Fox is a trans activist, illustrator, and graphic novel writer. He draws and addresses mainly social and political subjects close to feminism, LGBTQIAP+ issues, anti-racism, ableism, etc. His first graphic novel ReconnaiTrans was published by Éditions Lapin in 2021. He also illustrated and did the sensitivity reading for the children’s book Je m’appelle Julie (On ne compte pas pour du beurre, 2022)

Anthony Riches is the bestselling author of the Roman epic Empire series and has recently launched a new action/adventure thriller series. He has a degree in Military Studies and a life-long curiosity in all things defence, security and policing related. He lives in rural Suffolk with his life partner and an irritable cat.

Florence Rivières is an author, script and gamewriter. They navigate within various forms and genres in literature, and wrote the script for Tu n’auras pas mon silence, a graphic novel published by Marabulles in 2024.

Charlotte Rixon studied Classics at Leeds University and went on to gain an MA in Screenwriting. She has worked as a journalist, and more recently as a content marketing specialist working on luxury brands.

Adam Roberts is the author of The Amateur Gourmet, Secrets of the Best Chefs, and Give My Swiss Chards to Broadway. He started his food blog The Amateur Gourmet in 2004, and also hosts the podcast Lunch Therapy. Roberts has also written for The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, and for film and television. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband and their dog Winston. Food Person is his first novel.

Born and raised in Flint, Michigan, Kelsey Ronan's work has been published in Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Michigan Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, Utne Reader, and elsewhere. Her writing has been nominated for Best American Essays 2017, among other prizes and special publications. In 2017, she was chosen as the spring writer-in-residence of the Hub City Writers Project. She lives in Detroit and works for InsideOut Literary Arts.

Leonard Rosen is the author of the award-winning novel All Cry Chaos (Permanent Press), which was translated into 10 languages, and its prequel The Tenth Witness (Permanent Press). A beloved college math professor based in Massachusetts, Leonard has contributed radio commentaries to Boston’s NPR station, written best-selling textbooks on writing, and taught writing at Harvard University.

Phoebe Rowe was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and studied history and journalism at NYU. She works as a brand copywriter and resides in Brooklyn, New York.

A novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, Rudnick has written three books and frequently writes for The New Yorker. His articles and essays have also appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, Vanity Fair, and Spy. His screenplays include InandOut and Addams Family Values, and his plays include I Hate Hamlet. Using the pseudonym Libby Gelman-Waxner, Rudnick wrote film criticism for Premiere magazine.

Craig Russell is a multiply published Scottish author whose work has been translated into 22 languages. He is the author of the Lennox detective novel series, set in Glasgow in the 1950’s, as well as the Jan Fabel mystery series, set in Hamburg, Germany, made into a popular series for German television, and the recent novels The Devil Aspect, Hyde and The Devil’s Playground.

Anjali Sachdeva’s fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Tor.com, among other outlets. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught writing at the University of Iowa, Augustana College, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Pittsburgh. ALL THE NAMES THEY USED FOR GOD is her first book and winner of the 2019 Chautauqua Prize and 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.

Gerardo Sámano Córdova is a writer and artist from Mexico City living in Brooklyn. He's currently Writer in Residence at Fordham University. He got his MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. He has studied at Bread Loaf as a work/study scholar (2019) and fellow (2023) and at the Tin House Summer Workshop (2019).

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Cristina Sánchez-Andrade (Santiago de Compostela, 1968) is one of the most important contemporary female Spanish writers. She is also a literary critic and a translator, and coordinates several writing workshops. She is the author of the novels Las lagartijas huelen a hierba (Lengua de Trapo, 1999), Bueyes y rosas dormían (Siruela, 2001), Ya no pisa la tierra tu rey (Anagrama, Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 2004), Alas (Trama Editorial, 2005), Coco (2007), Los escarpines de Kristina de Noruega (Roca Editorial, 2011, finalist to Premio Espartaco de Novela Histórica), Ellibro de Julieta (Grijalbo, 2011), Las Inviernas (The Winterlings, Anagrama, 2014), Alguien bajo los párpados (Someone Beneath Your Eyelids, Anagrama, 2017), and La nostalgia de la Mujer Anfibio (The Longing of the Amphibian Woman, Anagrama, 2022). She is also the author of the award-winning short story collection El niño que comía lana (The Boy Who Ate Wool, short stories, Anagrama, 2019). Her work has been translated into English, Portuguese, Italian, Polish and Russian.

DaVaun Sanders is the author of the middle grade book Keynan Masters and the Peerless Magic Crew. He serves as Executive Editor for FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, winner of the WorldFantasy, British Fantasy and Hugo Awards.

Jonathan Santlofer is an artist and award winning writer, most recently of the critically acclaimed thriller The Last Mona Lisa, and the memoir The Widower’s Notebook. His debut novel, The Death Artist, an international bestseller, is currently in development for screen adaptation. Anatomy of Fear, won the Nero Award for best novel. He is the creator and editor of several anthologies including It Occurs to Me That I Am America, a collection of original stories and art. His paintings and drawings are included in many public and private collections. He lives in New York City.

Yaffa S. Santos was born and raised in New Jersey. She is the author of A Taste of Sage, which was named an Indie Next List Pick and Amazon Editor’s Pick, Winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Novel–Romance, and the forthcoming A Touch of Moonlight. Yaffa is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied writing and visual art. She enjoys books, coffee, and the beach, and lives in Central Florida with her family.

Marta Sanz is an award-winning novelist, poet, essayist, and scholar, and one of Spain’s leading feminist writers. In the last two decades she has written 15 novels and four collections of poetry, in addition to her edited anthologies and frequent contributions to major Spanish media publications including EL PAÍS, El Mundo, Público and Infolibre. She is a frequent guest commentator and public speaker at mainstream media outlets and literary events.

Sanz’s novels tackle social issues, challenge contemporary thinking with innovative literary styles, engage readers with insightful treatments of topical themes and entertain with biting satire. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into talian and Hungarian.

Originally from south Louisiana, Blake Sanz won the 2021 Iowa Short Fiction Award for his collection of short stories, The Boundaries of Their Dwelling, selected by Brandon Taylor. It was also a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and longlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction. His essays, interviews, and short stories have appeared in Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, American Short Fiction, Missouri Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere. He has been a work-study scholarship recipient at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a fellow at Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a scholar at the Sozopol Fiction Seminars in Bulgaria, a guest panelist at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans and Napa Valley Writers’ Workshop, and a funded participant at The Community of Writers. His work has also been recognized by the Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Competition, and he has held residencies at Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming, Art Farm in Nebraska, and Elsewhere Studios in Colorado. Son of a Mexican father and a Cajun mother and a graduate of the MFA program at Notre Dame, he teaches fiction at the University of Central Florida.

From her home in England, Lou Sarabadzic writes, creates and translates. She is the author of seven books in various genres, including the poetry collections Ensemble and Je ne sais faire rien d'autre que vivre (La Crypte), the jubilant Éloge poétique du lubrifiant (Le Nouvel Attila, 2021), and the comic book Toujours trop ou pas assez, en finir avec la rhétorique foireuse du patriarcat (Mango Society, 2022), illustrated by Marko Mille.

Margie Sarsfield is a Reno-based writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Normal School, Seneca Review, Northwest Review, CutBank, Salt Hill and elsewhere. She was the recipient of the 2019 Calvino Prize and holds a MFA from Ohio State University.