Kevin Brockmeier is the author of nine books, including The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories (Pantheon, 2020), from which the three stories in this issue are taken. Some of his earlier contributions to The Georgia Review were reprinted in the Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He teaches frequently at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was raised.

Ileen Park was born in Los Angeles. She received her BA in English and creative writing from New York University and her BS in nursing from the University of British Columbia. She currently resides in Jackson Heights, New York, where she works as an ICU nurse. “Nest” is her first published story.

Isaac Hughes Green is a writer in the MFA program in fiction at North Carolina State University and a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His writing was longlisted for The Master’s Review 2019 Fall Fiction contest, received an honorable mention for the James Hurst Prize for Fiction, and was a finalist for the Jacobs/Jones African-American Literary Prize. He has screened a film in the Cannes Short Film Corner and won several screenwriting and cinematography awards.

Sally Wen Mao is the author of the poetry collections Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014). The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, she was recently a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, a Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence at George Washington University, and a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Tin House, Poetry, Harper’s Bazaar, the Kenyon Review, Guernica, and A Public Space, among others. She is a Kundiman fellow in both fiction and poetry.

David Hayden was born in Ireland and lives in England. His writing has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Granta Online, Zoetrope: All-Story, The Dublin Review, AGNI, and A Public Space. His work has also appeared in the anthology Being Various: New Irish Writing (Faber, 2019), edited by Lucy Caldwell, and has aired on BBC and RTÉ radio. His first book, Darker with the Lights on, was published by Transit Books in 2017.