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Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician, writer, and PEN /American Robert W. Bingham Debut Fiction award finalist for her story collection White Dancing Elephants: Stories,
which was also selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Debut Fiction and Best
Short Story Collection and appeared on ?best of? lists for Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Vogue India, and Entertainment Weekly. Her work has appeared in
The New York Times, Salon, The Sun, Narrative Magazine, Tin House,
Electric Literature, Kenyon Review, Masters Review, The Millions,
Joyland, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Awl, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Community of Writers, and Sewanee Writers Workshop. Mauricio Montiel Figueiras
is a writer of prose fiction and essays, as well as a poet, translator,
editor, and film and literary critic. He is the author of fifteen books
in different genres. His work has been published in magazines and
newspapers in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Italy, Peru,
Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has been Resident
Writer for the Cheltenham Festival of Literature in England (2003) and
The Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Italy (2008). In 2012 he was
appointed Resident Writer for the prestigious Hawthornden Retreat for
Writers in Scotland. In 2020 he was selected artist in residence for the
Saari Residence in Finland. Since 1995 he lives and works in Mexico
City.
Jason Ockert is the author of Wasp Box, a novel, and three collections of short stories: Shadowselves, Neighbors of Nothing, and Rabbit Punches. Winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, the Atlantic Monthly Fiction
Contest, and the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, he was also a finalist
for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Million Writers Award. His work
has appeared in journals and anthologies including Best American Mystery Stories, Granta, The Cincinnati Review, Oxford American, One Story, and McSweeney's. He teaches at Coastal Carolina University. Jeff Parker is the author of several books including Where Bears Roam the Streets: A Russian Journal, the novel Ovenman, and the short story collection The Taste of Penny.
He teaches prose in the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst, and he is the co-founder and director of the DISQUIET
International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal.
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