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The following is from Fiona McFarlane’s The Sun Walks Down. McFarlane is the author of The Night Guest (2013) and The High Places (2016), which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her short fiction has been published in the New Yorker and Zoetrope: All-Story. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. Colony of South Australia, September 1883 The boy met a god by the...

The following is from Hanna Pylvinen’s The End of Drum-Time. Pylvinen is the author of the novel We Sinners, which received a Whiting Award and a Balcones Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in Harpers Magazine, the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal. She is on the faculty at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers and lives...

The following is from Martin Riker’s The Guest Lecture. Riker is the co-founder and publisher of the feminist press Dorothy, a Publishing Project, and the author of Samuel Johnsons Eternal Return. He teaches in the English department at Washington University in St. Louis, and his criticism has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, among other publications. What are you...

The following is from Lauren John Joseph’s At Certain Points We Touch. Joseph is a British born American-educated artist and writer, who works at the intersection of video, text, and live performance. They have written extensively on contemporary culture, art, performance, pornography, gender theory and the Golden Age of Hollywood, including Everything Must Go (ITNA Press in 2014), and the...

The following is from Jane Smiley’s A Dangerous Business. Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and the Last Hundred Years Trilogy: Some Luck, Early Warning, and Golden Age. She is the author as well of several works of nonfiction and books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has...

The following is from Henriette Lazaridis’ Terra Nova. Lazaridis is the author of The Clover House. Her short work has appeared in ELLE, The New York Times, New England Review, The Millions, Pangyrus, and more. She is a graduate of Middlebury College, Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches at GrubStreet in Boston and founded The...

The following is from Constance Debr’s Love Me Tender. Debr left her career as a lawyer to become a writer. She has written three other novels, Play Boy (Prix de la Coupole 2018), Un peu l, beaucoup ailleurs (winner of the 2005 Prix Contrepoint), and Manuel pratique de l’idal Abcdaire de survie.. They tell me not to publish the book, they tell me not to talk about girls, they tell me...

The following is from Jack Driscoll’s Twenty Stories: New and Selected. He is a two-time NEA Creative Writing Fellowship recipient, a PEN/Nelson Algren Award winner, and the author of twelve books, including the story collections, Wanting Only to Be Heard and The World of a Few Minutes Ago. Driscoll was the founding father of the Interlochen Center for the Arts creative writing department...

The following is from Clark Blaise’s This Time, That Place. Blaise is a Canadian-American author of The Meagre Tarmac and other novels and story collections. He was the husband of Bharati Mukherjee. You jump into this business of a new country cautiously. First you choose a place where English is spoken, with doctors and bus lines at hand, and a supermarket in a centre dachats not too far...