SmokeLong Quarterly

Mara Aguilar-Erdman is an Asheville, NC native where she works as a crisis counselor for LGBTQ youth at risk of suicide and edits for Shenandoah Magazine. She received her MFA from Queens University in January 2023. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Rising Phoenix Review, Vestal Review, Unleash Press, and others and has been nominated for a Best of Net. She is the recipient of the Sullivan Writer’s Grant for excellence in Fiction and her short story placed 2nd in The Writer’s 2022 short story contest. She has attended Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference and Disquiet Literary Conference as a scholar and will be attending Tin House Workshop in November while entering the trenches of querying her debut novel, an excerpt of which is upcoming in EXCERPT Magazine.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: The Title of Our Memoir
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with
Mara Aguilar-Erdman