A lifelong English teacher, she has educated in institutions and universities on three continents, yet her long-term home is a 6-acre ranch in Woodstock, GA.. Her fiction has actually been published in countless magazines, consisting of The Georgia Evaluation, Gertrude Press, and Fiction International, and she got an ethical mention for The Very Best American Short Stories 2018.

Her launching tale collection PEOPLE WANT TO LIVE released with McSweeney's Books on October 26th, and includes brand-new tales and some formerly released in VQR, Shenandoah, The Arkansas International, MQR, The Southern Evaluation, Kenyon Testimonial, Copper Nickel, and others.

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Jeff Kass is the writer of Knuckleheads, a finalist for Foreword Reviews Finest Brief Fiction Collection of 2011, and a number of chapbooks. Meissner matured in Iowa and Wisconsin and was the director of innovative writing at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. She went back to the united state to go to Stanford College, and when the Islamic Transformation began brewing shortly after she graduated, she returned to Iran and plunked herself down in it. She later on got an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University.