Emma Smith-Stevens is the author of the novel The Australian (Dzanc, 2017). Her writing has appeared in BOMB Magazine, Literary Hub, Conjunctions, SmokeLong Quarterly, Subtropics, Wigleaf, Joyland, and elsewhere; and her essay “The Sun” is forthcoming in the anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture (Ed. Roxane Gay, Harper Perennial). She’s had two stories included in Wigleaf‘s Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions and received a Special Mention in the 2016 Pushcart Prize anthology. Originally from New York City, she lives in New York and is fiction editor at The Mondegreen.
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