Amy Cipolla Barnes is the author of three collections: Mother Figures, Ambrotypes, and Child Craft. She has words at The Rumpus, The New Territory Mag, In Short, Literary Namjooning, The Citron Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Spartan Lit, JMWW Journal, No Contact Mag, Paragraph Planet, Complete Sentence, Gone Lawn, Trampset, The Bureau Dispatch, Stanchion, The Hooghly Review, X-R-A-Y Lit, McSweeney’s, -ette review, Reckon Review, Cease, Cows, and many other sites. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net, the Pushcart Prize, and has been included in Best Microfiction 2025 and Best Small Fictions 2022, and was longlisted for the Wigleaf Top50 in 2021 through 2024. She’s a Fractured Lit associate editor, Gone Lawn co-editor, Ruby Lit assistant editor, the Narratively Chief Submissions Reader, and instructor for the Narratively Academy, and also reads for The MacGuffin.
Stories in Smokelong Quarterly
Story:
Drowning on Main Street
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with
Amy Cipolla Barnes
Story:
My mother is an abandoned Kmart
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors
with Amy Cipolla Barnes
Interviewer in Smokelong Quarterly
Interview: Smoke Signals with Valerie Fox
Interview:
Smoke & Mirrors with
Dana Brewer Harris
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with Lindy Biller
Interview:
Smoke & Mirrors with
Katie Coleman
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with Melissa Llanes Brownlee
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with Natalie Warther
Interview: Smoke and Mirrors with Grace Q. Song
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with Sudha Balagopal
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with Sara Hills
