art by Leslie June
Josh Neufeld and Sari Wilson are the co-editors of Flashed: Sudden Stories in Comics and Prose (Pressgang, 2016). Neufeld is the author of the nonfiction graphic novel A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Pantheon), and he is the illustrator of The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media (W.W. Norton). He has been an Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Artist, a Knight-Wallace Fellow in Journalism, and a Xeric Award winner. Sari Wilson is the author of the the novel Girl Through Glass (Harper, 2016). Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in literary journals such as Slice, Agni, and The Oxford American. She has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, a Fine Arts Work Center Fellow, and has received a residency from The Corporation of Yaddo. Neufeld and Wilson live in Brooklyn, New York, with their daughter. www.JoshComix.com and www.SariWilson.com.
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