art by Laurie Sloat Silverstein
Rosie Forrest lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She is the winner of the Dogwood Fiction Prize, and her collection Ghost Box Evolution in Cadillac, Michigan won the 9th Annual Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook competition. Her work has appeared in Literary Orphans, Wigleaf, Word Riot, Hobart, Whiskey Island, Ampersand, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. Prior to Nashville, Rosie was the writer-in-residence with Interlochen Arts Academy and earned her MFA from the University of New Hampshire. Read more over at her website.
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online.