Issue 266 Contributors

Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 266

Cate McGowan
Cate McGowan is the author of the short story collection, “True Places Never Are” (2015), which won the 2014 Moon City Press Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for The Lascaux Book Prize. Her debut novel, “These Lowly Objects,” is forthcoming from Gold Wake Press, and her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Norton’s Flash Fiction International, Glimmer Train, Crab Orchard Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Phoebe, Shenandoah, Vestal Review, Split Rock Review, and elsewhere. A Georgia native and current Florida resident, McGowan’s an assistant prose poetry and fiction editor at Pithead Chapel.

Shome Dasgupta
Shome Dasgupta is the author of “i am here And You Are Gone” (Winner Of The 2010 OW Press Fiction Chapbook Contest), “The Seagull And The Urn” (HarperCollins India), “Anklet And Other Stories” (Golden Antelope Press), “Pretend I Am Someone You Like” (University of West Alabama’s Livingston Press), and “Mute” (Tolsun Books). His stories and poems have appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Puerto Del Sol, New Orleans Review, New Delta Review, Necessary Fiction, Atlas And Alice, Magma Poetry, and elsewhere. He lives in Lafayette, LA and can be found at www.shomedome.com and @laughingyeti.

Burton Shulman
Burton Shulman has published a collection of stories, “Safe House,” and completed a second collection, “Success,” and the novel “Long Wars.” His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bottomfish, Elm Leaves Journal, Forge Journal, Global City Review, Litbreak Magazine, The Paragon Journal, The Penmen Review, and SLAB.

Maura Way
Originally from Washington, DC, Maura Way lives in Greensboro, NC, by way of Boise, Idaho. Her work has previously appeared in Otis Nebula, Verse, The Chattahoochee Review, and Hotel Amerika, among others. Her debut collection “Another Bungalow” was released by Press 53 in 2017. She has been a schoolteacher for over twenty years, most recently at New Garden Friends School.

Carol Everett Adams
Carol Everett Adams writes poems about Disney theme parks, organized religion, UFOs, and other topics. She lives in the Midwestern United States and has a day job in the tech industry. Her poems have been published in California Quarterly, Euphony, The MacGuffin, The New York Quarterly, Owen Wister Review, Quercus Review, Soundings East, and others. You can connect with her at caroleverettadams.com.

Katherine Fallon
Katherine Fallon’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Colorado Review, Juked, Meridian, Foundry, and others, and will be included in Best New Poets 2019. Her chapbook, “The Toothmakers’ Daughters,” is available through Finishing Line Press. She shares domestic space with two cats and her favorite human, who helps her zip her dresses.

Dani Herrera
Dani Herrera is a 24 year old writer living in the Central Valley of California. She is currently getting her Masters at St. Mary’s College of California as part of their fiction cohort. Follow her on Instagram to see posts on her writing, daily life, and her border collie, Blu. This is her first publication.