Glimmer Train Stories, #86
Jonathan Freibergergrew up in Tenafly, New Jersey, and graduated from Oberlin College. He worked in Hollywood for a while then, tragically, fell into finance and banking. His story, "In the Style of Decadence," appeared in Ducts, the online webzine of the New York Writer's Workshop."Pinsky Gets It Right" will be his first print publication. Everything before that got rejected.David Goguenlives in San Francisco, where he is working on a collection of short fiction. He is the recipient of Glimmer Train's November 2011 Short Story Award for New Writers, and "Old Teeth" is his first story accepted for publication.Joseph Vastanostarted writing at sixteen. He traced Jim Morrison to Kerouac and Rimbaud, took them at their word, and deranged his senses on the road for twenty years. Now he's sorting through it all. He owes a great deal of his success to his wife, Sofie an outstanding poet and to the Texas State MFA program.Tracy Guzemanlives and works in Northern California. Her fiction has been published in Gulf Coast and Vestal Review, and she has twice been a Glimmer Train Top 25 finalist. Her short story "Just Don't Love You Anymore" was performed as part of the New Short Fiction Series Emerging Voices Group Show.Meredith Lubyis a graduate of Guilford College and is an MFA student at Brown University. She is originally from northern Virginia. "Boxes" was her first story accepted for print publication. Her work has since been published in Redivider and online in Umbrella Factory Magazine.Josh Rolnick's story collection Pulp and Paper won won the 2011 John Simmons Short Fiction Award. His collection contains four stories set in New Jersey, where he grew up, and four in New York, where he spent his summers as a kid. He is a former reporter who now serves as a fiction editor for the journal Unstuck and publisher of Sh'ma, a journal of Jewish ideas.William Gay's first novel, The Long Home, won the James A. Michener Memorial Prize and was honored as a New York Times Notable Book. His second novel, Provinces of Night, and a short-story collection, I Hate to See the Evening Sun Go Down, were published to critical acclaim. His stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South, O. Henry, Best New American Voices, and Best American Mystery Stories. His third novel was Twilight (2006). The 2010 film Bloodworth starring Kris Kristofferson was based on Provinces of Night. The title story from his short-story collection was also made into a film, That Evening Sun, starring Hal Holbrook. Gay was the online music critic for Oxford American, and was profiled in a short film. He died in his hometown of Hohenwald, Tennessee in February 2012.Abe Gaustadhas studied creative writing at the University of Memphis and the University of Tennessee. His stories have appeared in Third Coast, New Orleans Review, Camera Obscura, Memphis Magazine, Gulf Stream, and elsewhere. He is hard at work on his first novel.Jennie Linhas been previously published in the Missouri Review. She graduated from Harvard in 2003 with a degree in English, and currently lives in San Francisco. She is working on her first collection of short stories.Adva Levingrew up in Israel and the United States. She received her MFA in creative writing and literary translation from Columbia University, and is currently working on her first novel. "Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Please" is her first story accepted for publication.A wayward Hoosier,William Akinabides in the Pacific Northwest, perched on the edge of an extinct cinder cone. He hasn't a strong grasp on the differences between prose and poetry, nor myth and truth, often co