Cherie Hunter Day’s work has appeared in literary journals such as Moon City Review, Quarter After Eight, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Wigleaf. Her 2014 Fineline entry, “Fisher Scientific,” appears in 35.1 and marks the fifth time she was a finalist and Editors’ Choice in MAR‘s Fineline Competition. She lives in Cupertino, California. Quick! Summarize your piece...

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta has been a gardener of simple herbs, a 9th grade class president, a fairy godmother, and a Cozy Coup driver. She lives with her family in Idaho. Her poem, “Cartography of Human Bridges,” appears in MAR 35.1. Quick! Summarize your poem in 10 words or fewer. Guy gave me the word “caisson.”...

Brenda Peynado’s fiction and nonfiction appear or are forthcoming in The O.Henry Prize Stories 2015, The Threepenny Review, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Cimarron Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Florida State University, where she held a Kingsbury Fellowship and was Fiction Editor of The Southeast Review. Last year, she lived in the Dominican Republic on a...

Becky Hagenston’s first collection of stories, A Gram of Mars, won Sarabande Books’ Mary McCarthy Prize; her second collection, Strange Weather, won the Spokane Prize and was published by Press 53. Her stories have appeared in Subtropics, Crazyhorse, The Southern Review, Indiana Review, and many other journals, as well as the O. Henry anthology. She...

Yael Massen is a first-year MFA student in poetry at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her work can be found in Ilanot Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and DIALOGIST. Her poem, “The Cartographer’s Daughter,” appears in MAR 35.1. What can you share about this piece prior to its MAR publication? “The Cartographer’s Daughter” is actually an ekphrastic poem, based on...