A long-lasting English educator, she has actually instructed in colleges and colleges on three continents, but her long-term home is a 6-acre farm in Woodstock, GA.. Her fiction has actually been published in many magazines, consisting of The Georgia Testimonial, Gertrude Press, and Fiction International, and she obtained a respectable mention for The Best American Short Stories 2018.

Her debut story collection individuals INTEND TO LIVE published with McSweeney's Books on October 26th, and consists of new stories and some previously released in VQR, Shenandoah, The Arkansas International, MQR, The Southern Evaluation, Kenyon Testimonial, Copper Nickel, and others.

He has actually provided workshops and readings at universities and writing conferences around the U.S., consisting of AWP, Lake Forest's & Now collection, the National online writing mentorship for authors Task at Colorado State University, and the Bankhead Checking Out Writers Series at the College of Alabama.

Mark Dunn is the writer of twenty published plays and a dozen jobs of fiction and non-fiction, most recently Texas Individuals's Court: The Fascinating Globe of the Texas Justice of the Tranquility published in 2022 by Texas A&M University Press and the play The Puzzle with the Piazza (Concord Theatricals) which he made available for royalty-free streaming manufacturings for theaters throughout the pandemic.

Jeff Kass is the author 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 supervisor of innovative composing at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. She returned to the U.S. to go to Stanford University, and when the Islamic Transformation began brewing quickly after she finished, she returned to Iran and plunked herself down in it. She later on obtained an MFA in Creative Composing from Boston College.