A lifelong English teacher, she has actually educated in schools and universities on 3 continents, yet her long-term home is a 6-acre farm in Woodstock, GA.. Her fiction has actually been published in countless publications, including The Georgia Evaluation, Gertrude Press, and Fiction International, and she received an honorable reference for The Best American Short Stories 2018.

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

He has actually given workshops and readings at colleges and composing meetings around the united state, including AWP, Lake Woodland's & Currently series, the National Creating Task at Colorado State College, and the Bankhead Checking Out Writers Collection at the University of Alabama.

Mark Dunn is the author of twenty published plays and a loads works of fiction and non-fiction, most lately Texas Individuals's Court: The Interesting Globe of the Texas Justice of the Tranquility published in 2022 by Texas A&M University Press and the play The Challenge with the Piazza (Concord Theatricals) which he offered for royalty-free streaming productions for theaters during the pandemic.

Jeff Kass is the author of Knuckleheads, a finalist for Foreword Reviews Ideal Brief Fiction Collection of 2011, and numerous chapbooks. Meissner grew up in Iowa and Wisconsin and was the director of innovative creating at St. Cloud State College in Minnesota. She returned to the united state to participate in Stanford University, and when the Islamic Transformation began making quickly after she finished, she moved back to Iran and plunked herself down in it. She later on obtained an MFA in Creative online writing mentorship for authors from Boston University.