Amanda Faraone
Amanda Faraone is a writer. Her fiction and interviews have appeared in Curbside Splendor, Ghost Ocean Magazine, and BOMB, among others. She received a BA with High Honors in Sociology from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College. Until 2016, she worked at One Story and curated the reading series Flint Fiction in Brooklyn. She now lives in Austin, where she volunteers with American Short Fiction and edits her debut novel about teenage girls and love magic.
Bryan Washington captures a specific, contemporary Houston
Bryan Washington is a writer from Houston. His fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, Vulture, The Paris Review, Boston Review, Tin House, One Story, Bon Appétit, MUNCHIES, American...
Burning the system to the ground: On reading Claire Vaye Watkins
Claire Vaye Watkins is a writer who can shock, inspire, and disgust you — sometimes all three within the space of a sentence. Her debut collection, "Battleborn," explores the...
Amy Gentry: Being awake in paranoid world
Amy Gentry is a novelist and critic whose debut novel "Good as Gone" was a New York Times Notable Book and Entertainment Weekly “Must List” Pick in 2016. Her essays have appeared...
Chaitali Sen on breaking down the borders in your mind
Chaitali Sen is a writer and educator based in Austin, Texas. Her debut novel, "The Pathless Sky," was published by Europa Editions in 2015. Short stories, reviews, and essays...