Guest Editors for the Fiction Only Issue


Tania Hershman’s third short story collection, Some Of Us Glow More Than Others, was published by Unthank Books in May 2017, and her debut poetry collection, Terms & Conditions, by Nine Arches Press in July. Tania is also the author of a poetry chapbook, Nothing Here Is Wild, Everything Is Open, and two short story collections, My Mother Was An Upright Piano, and The White Road and Other Stories, and co-author of Writing Short Stories: A Writers’ & Artists’ Companion (Bloomsbury, 2014). Tania is curator of short story hub ShortStops (www.shortstops.info), celebrating short story activity across the UK & Ireland, and has a PhD in creative writing inspired by particle physics. Hear her read her work on https://soundcloud.com/taniahershman and find out more here: www.taniahershman.com

 


Jessamyn Hope is a critically acclaimed novelist and memoirist. Her debut novel Safekeeping was Boston Globe recommended read; acclaimed by The Globe and Mail; won the J.I. Segal Award in English Fiction; and was a finalist for both the Harold U. Ribalow Prize and the Paterson Fiction Prize. Her memoirs—originally published in PloughsharesPRISM InternationalColorado Review, and other literary magazines—have recently received two Pushcart Prize honorable mentions and been anthologized in the Best Canadian Essays, The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose and The New Spice Box: Canadian Jewish Writing. She was the Susannah McCorkle Scholar in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and has an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Born and raised in Montreal, she lived in Israel before moving to New York City. Learn more at jessamynhope.com.