Marcela Fuentes is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer and essayist. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was the 2016-2017 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in the Indiana Review, The Rumpus, Texas Highways Magazine, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. Her debut novel MALAS (June 2024) and linked story collection MY HEART HAS MORE ROOMS THAN A WHOREHOUSE are forthcoming from Viking Books. She lives in Fort Worth, Texas.

Born in small-town Oklahoma, Indian-American essayist Kirtan Nautiyal is now a practicing hematologist and oncologist near Houston, TX, where he lives with his wife and dog. His writing has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Ucross Foundation, and Millay Arts, and has been published in Guernica, Electric Literature, Crazyhorse, The Southern Review, Boulevard, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. His work has been featured in popular venues such as Longreads, Longform, and the Memoir Monday newsletter and recognized as notable on multiple occasions by the Best American Essays series. “Gettysburg”, initially published in Guernica, appears in the recent anthology South to South: Writing South Asia in the American South published last year by the Texas Review Press. He is currently at work on a memoir-in-essays about his search for home.

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