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  Ryan Bloom’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Guernica, New England Review, PEN America, Black Clock, The American Prospect, and a variety of other publications. His translation of Albert Camus’s Notebooks 1951–1959 was nominated for the 2009 French-American Foundation and Florence Gould Foundation Prize for Superior English Translation of French Prose.

  Fabien Clouette is the author of Quelques Rides (2015) and Le Bal des Ardents (2016), published by Éditions de l’Ogre. He is also a filmmaker and maritime anthropologist. He was born in 1989 in Saint-Malo.

  Michael Harris Cohen’s work has been published or is forthcoming in various magazines and anthologies including Fiction International, The Dark Magazine, Havok, Litro, Le Scat Noir, and Conjunctions (web). He’s the winner of the Weston Award from Brown University, Mixer’s “Sex, Violence and Satire” contest and the Modern Grimmoire Literary Prize. He’s a recipient of a Fulbright grant and fellowships from the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Djerassi Foundation, the Jentel Artist’s Residency, the Blue Mountain Center, and OMI International Arts Center for Writers. His first book, The Eyes, was published in 2013. He lives and teaches in Bulgaria.

  Lisa Dillman translates from the Spanish and teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University. Her translation of Yuri Herrera’s Signs Preceding the End of the World won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award. She lives in Decatur, Georgia.

  Julia Elliott’s writing has appeared in Tin House, The Georgia Review, Conjunctions, The New York Times, and other publications. She has won a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, and her stories have been anthologized in

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  Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses and Best American Short Stories. Her debut story collection, The Wilds, was chosen by Kirkus, BuzzFeed, Book Riot, and Electric Literature as one of the Best Books of 2014 and was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Her first novel, The New and Improved Romie Futch, was published in October 2015.

  Danielle Evans is the author of the story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Hurston-Wright award, the Paterson Prize, and a National Book Founda-tion 5 under 35 selection. Her stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies including The Paris Review, A Public Space, American Short Fiction, Callaloo, New Stories from the South, and The Best American Short Stories. She teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

  Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press) and the novella The Warren (Tor.com). He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Greek Spanish, Japanese, Persian, and Slovenian. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts.

  Sasha Fletcher is the author of it is going to be a good year (Big Lucks Books, 2016). He lives in Brooklyn.

  Amelia Gray is the author of five books, most recently Isadora (FSG). Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and Vice. She is winner of the NYPL

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  Young Lion, of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She lives in Los Angeles.

  Elizabeth Hand is the multiple-award-winning author of fifteen novels and five collections of short fiction, including the Cass Neary noir novels Generation Loss, Available Dark, and Hard Light, which have been compared to those of Patricia Highsmith. She is a longtime contributor to the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Salon, and The Village Voice, among many others, and teaches at the Stonecoast MFA Program. Her forthcoming noir novel, The Book of Lamps and Banners, will be published in 2018. She lives on the Maine coast and in North London.

  Christian Hayden lives in Chicago, Illinois. His work has appeared in [PANK], Word Riot, Buffalo Almanack, Yemassee, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and others. He also contributes to ClickHole.

  Yuri Herrera (Actopan, México, 1970). Has written three novels, all of them translated into several languages: Signs Preceding the End of the World, Transmigration of Bodies, Kingdom Cons, published in English by And Other Stories. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Tulane, in New Orleans.

  Karen Heuler’s stories have appeared in over one hundred literary and speculative magazines and anthologies, from Conjunctions to Clarkesworld to Weird Tales, as well as a number of Best Of anthologies. She has received an O. Henry award, been a finalist for the Iowa short fiction award, the Bellwether award, the Shirley Jackson award for short fiction (twice), and a bunch of other near-misses. She has published four novels and three story

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  collections, and in July Aqueduct Press released her novella, In Search of Lost Time, about a woman who can steal time.

  Adam Hirsch is a writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles.

  MISHA HOEKSTRA is an award-winning translator living in Aarhus, where he writes and performs songs under the name Minka Hoist.

  Henry Hoke is the author of Genevieves and The Book of Endless Sleepovers. He co-created and directs Enter>text: a living literary journal.

  Jac Jemc is the author of The Grip of It (FSG Originals). Her first novel, My Only Wife (Dzanc Books) was a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award, and her collection of stories, A Different Bed Every Time (Dzanc Books) was named one of Amazon’s best story collections of 2014. She edits nonfiction for Hobart.

  Paul La Farge is the author of five books, most recently The Night Ocean, a novel. He lives in upstate New York, and whatever he’s up to, he does his best not to get caught.

  Quentin Leclerc is the author of Saccage (2016; Prix Littéraire des Grandes Écoles 2017) and La Ville Fond (2017), both published by Éditions de l’Ogre. He was born in 1991 and lives in Rennes.

  J. Robert Lennon is the author of two story collections, Pieces for the Left Hand and See You in Paradise, and eight novels, including Mailman, Familiar, and Broken River. He teaches writing at Cornell University.

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  Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the story collection Her Body and Other Parties and the forthcoming memoir House in Indiana, both from Graywolf Press. She is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Guernica, Electric Literature, NPR, Gulf Coast, Vice, and elsewhere. Her stories have been reprinted in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy and Best Horror of the Year, and she holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the Artist in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania, and lives in Philadelphia with her wife.

  Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including The Last Weekend and I Am Providence. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, West Coast Crime Wave, Long Island Noir, Vancouver Noir, and many other venues.

  J. W. McCormack’s fiction and criticism have appeared in Conjunctions, Tin House, Vice, and The Weird Fiction Review. He lives in Brooklyn with his parakeet, Paul Atreides.

  Adam McCulloch is a NATJA award–winning travel writer whose work has appeared in Travel + Leisure, The Australian, Men’s Health, Reader’s Digest, Lonely Planet. His screenplays have been listed for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, Page International Screenwriting Awards, Scriptapalooza, and BlueCat Screenplay Competition.

  Fuminori Nakamura was born in 1977 and graduated from Fukushima University in 2000. His work has been translated into twelve languages, and he has won numerous prizes for his writing, including the Oe Prize, Japan’s largest literary award; the David L. Goodis Award for Noir

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  Fiction; and the pres
tigious Akutagawa Prize. The Thief, his first novel to be translated into English, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His other novels include The Gun, The Kingdom, Evil and the Mask, Last Winter, We Parted, and The Boy in the Earth.

  Richie Narvaez was born and raised in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His work has been published in Long Island Noir, Mississippi Review, Murdaland, Pilgrimage, Plots with Guns, Sunshine Noir, and others. His first book of short stories, Roachkiller and Other Stories, received the Spinetingler Award for Best Anthology/Short Story Collection.

  Kenneth Nichols earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Ohio State and maintains the writing craft website Great Writers Steal (www.great

  writerssteal.com). His work has appeared in a wide range of publications including Main Street Rag, Literary Orphans, and Lunch Ticket.

  DORTHE NORS received the 2014 Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize for Karate Chop, which Publishers Weekly named one of the best books of 2014. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and A Public Space.

  Benjamin Percy is the author of seven books, most recently The Dark Net, a novel. He writes the Green Arrow and Teen Titans series for DC Comics. His honors include an NEA Fellowship, the Whiting Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and inclusion in Best American Stories.

  Helen Phillips is the author of four books, including, most recently, the short story collection Some Possible Solutions, winner of the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat, a New York Times

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  Notable Book of 2015, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and the Italo Calvino Prize. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Tin House, and on Selected Shorts. She teaches at Brooklyn College.

  Allison Markin Powell is a literary translator, editor, and publishing consultant. Her translation of Hiromi Kawakami’s The Briefcase (U.K. title, Strange Weather in Tokyo) was nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Her other translations include works by Osamu Dazai, Fuminori Nakamura, and Kanako Nishi. She lives in New York City, and maintains the database Japanese Literature in English.

  On April 5, 2017, Misha Rai was awarded the 2016 novel-in-progress award for Blood We Did Not Spill by the Dana Award in the novel category. In 2016 she became the first-ever PhD in Fiction to be awarded the Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies for the same novel-in-progress. She has also been a 2016–2017 Edward H. and Mary C. Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State University and the recipient of the 2015 George M. Harper Award. Misha Rai was born in Sonepat, Haryana, and brought up in India. She currently serves as associate reviews editor for Pleiades.

  Rion Amilcar Scott’s short story collection, Insurrections (University Press of Kentucky, 2016) was awarded the 2017 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Presently, he teaches English at Bowie State University.

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  Amber Sparks is the author of the short story collection The Unfinished World and Other Stories, which has received praise from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Paris Review, among others. She is also the author of a previous short story collection, May We Shed These Human Bodies, as well as the co-author of a hybrid novella with Robert Kloss and illustrator Matt Kish, titled The Desert Places.

  Adam Sternbergh is an Edgar-nominated novelist and New York magazine’s culture editor, and the former culture editor of The New York Times Magazine. His latest novel is The Blinds, a thriller about a remote, secretive town in West Texas. His first novel, Shovel Ready, a future-noir thriller about a garbageman-turned-hitman in a dystopian New York City, was a Newsweek Favorite Book of 2014 and a 2015 Edgar Award nominee. Raised in Toronto, he lives in Brooklyn with his family.

  Laura van den Berg is the author of two story collections, most recently The Isle of Youth, and a novel, Find Me. Her next novel, The Third Hotel, is forthcoming from FSG in August 2018.

  Adrian Van Young is the author of The Man Who Noticed Everything, a collection of stories, and Shadows in Summerland, a novel. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such publications as The Collagist, Black Warrior Review, Conjunctions, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Slate, Vice, The Believer, and The New Yorker. He lives in New Orleans, where he teaches at Tulane University.

  Sarah Wang is a writer based in New York. In 2016 she was awarded a Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Literary Award runner-up prize. She has written

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  for n+1, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Conjunctions, Stonecutter Journal, Joyland, the Asian American Writer’s Workshop, Story Magazine, The Third Rail, and The Last Newspaper at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, among other publications. An excerpt of her novel is forthcoming in BOMB. She is the co-editor of semiotext(e)’s Animal Shelter. See more of her work at wangsarah.com.

  Benjamin Whitmer is the author of Cry Father and Pike, which was nominated for the 2013 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and co-author (with Charlie Louvin) of Satan Is Real, a New York Times Critics’ Choice book. He lives in Colorado with his two children.

  Erica Wright’s latest novel is The Granite Moth (Pegasus Books), a sequel to The Red Chameleon (Pegasus Books). She is also the author of two poetry collections, Instructions for Killing the Jackal (Black Lawrence Press) and All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned (Black Lawrence Press). She is the poetry editor and a senior editor at Guernica as well as an editorial board member for Alice James Books.

  Charles Yu has published three books including his most recent, Sorry Please Thank You. His writing has been published in a number of publications including The New Yorker, Wired, Slate, and The New York Times. He has also written for shows on HBO and AMC.

  Jeffrey Zuckerman is the translator of Ananda Devi’s Eve Out of Her Ruins (Firecracker Award in Fiction, 2017) and Jean-Jacques Schuhl’s Dusty Pink, and is currently translating the complete stories of Hervé Guibert. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1987 and lives in New York, where he works as an editor for Music & Literature magazine.

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