A long-lasting English instructor, she has shown in colleges and universities on 3 continents, but her irreversible home is a 6-acre ranch in Woodstock, GA.. Her fiction has been published in countless magazines, consisting of The Georgia Testimonial, Gertrude Press, and Fiction International, and she received a respectable reference for The Most Effective American Short Stories 2018.

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

He has provided workshops and readings at colleges and writing seminars around the U.S., consisting of AWP, Lake Woodland's & Now collection, the National Composing Project at Colorado State University, and the Bankhead Visiting Writers Series at the University of Alabama.

The AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship Program matches arising writers with recognized authors for a three-month collection of modules on subjects such as craft, revision, posting, and the writing life. The Dzanc Creative Composing Mentorship is an one-of-a-kind online writing mentorship for authors program made for authors to function individually with released editors and authors to form their short story, unique, rhyme, or essay.

Jeff Kass is the author of Knuckleheads, a finalist for Foreword Reviews Best Brief Fiction Collection of 2011, and several chapbooks. Meissner grew up in Iowa and Wisconsin and was the director of imaginative writing at St. Cloud State College in Minnesota. She returned to the U.S. to attend Stanford University, and when the Islamic Change started making soon after she graduated, she returned to Iran and plunked herself down in it. She later received an MFA in Creative Composing from Boston University.