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Dur e Aziz Amna is a writer based in Newark, NJ. Her debut novel, American Fever (Skyhorse, 2022), won the SABA Award and the APALA Award for Literature. Her work has also been published in the Financial Times, Aljazeera, the New York Times, and others, and has won several awards, such as the Financial Times Essay Prize and the London Magazine Prize for Fiction. She is a graduate of Yale College and the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program.

Molly Anders is a fiction writer from Kentucky. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming from One Story, Passages North, Hobart, North American Review, the Stinging Fly, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a collection of short stories and a novel at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Ramona Ausubel is the author of five books, most recently The Last Animal (Riverhead), which was named a best book of 2023 by NPR, Kirkus, and the Oprah Quarterly, and was a Barnes & Noble Book Club selection. She is the recipient of the PEN/USA Fiction Award, and her work has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Paris Review, One Story, and elsewhere. She is a professor at Colorado State University.

Joy Deva Baglio is a speculative/ literary writer whose short stories have appeared in journals such as the Missouri Review, Tin House, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, the Iowa Review, the Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. Recent honors include fellowships, scholarships, and residencies from Yaddo, Ragdale, The Elizabeth George Foundation, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Vermont Studio Center, and The Kerouac Project, among others. She is at work on a novel and short story collection and plays the bagpipes when she is not writing. Find her online at www.JoyBaglio.com.

Drew Calvert’s stories have appeared in the Kenyon Review, the Threepenny Review, Gulf Coast, the Missouri Review, and other publications. His awards include an Arts Fellowship from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a Fulbright grant for creative writing. He lives in California.

Diana Cao’s poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in the Threepenny Review, the Georgia Review, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. She has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and International Literary Seminars, and she is a winner of Nimrod International’s 2023 Neruda Prize and Just Buffalo Literary Center’s 2024 Poetry Fellowship. Her first chapbook is Relational (Sixth Finch, 2024).

Jane Delury is the author of the novels Hedge (Zibby Books, 2023) and The Balcony (Little Brown, 2018). Her short stories have appeared in Granta, the Georgia Review, the Yale Review, and other publications. Her awards include the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a PEN/O. Henry prize. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Baltimore, where she directs the BA in English.

Janice Furlong is a writer, psychotherapist, and clinical professor at Boston University. Her short stories have appeared in the Michigan Quarterly Review and Washington Square Review. In 2023, she was nominated for a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Janice studied with C. Michael Curtis, fiction editor emeritus at the Atlantic, and at GrubStreet in Boston. She is currently at work on a short story collection.

Tim Horvath is the author of Understories (Bellevue Literary Press, 2012), which won the New Hampshire Literary Award, and Circulation (sunnyoutside, 2009). His stories appear in Conjunctions, AGNI, Sleepingfish, Best Small Fictions 2021, and elsewhere. He teaches English at Phillips Exeter, and Creative Writing in the MFA programs for Stony Brook and Warren Wilson. He is a senior editor at Conjunctions and is currently at work on a novel and a follow-up collection.

Rebecca Makkai is the author of this year’s New York Times bestselling I Have Some Questions For You (Viking, 2023), as well as the novels The Great Believers (Penguin Books, 2018), The Hundred-Year House (Penguin Books, 2014), and The Borrower (Penguin Books, 2011), and the short story collection Music for Wartime (Penguin Books, 2015). The Great Believers was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and it...