Glimmer Train Stories, #92 - Softcover

Kimberly Bunker is originally from upstate New York, where she worked with Step by Step of Rochester, a nonprofit that offers creative writing workshops to women in prison. She holds a BA in music from the University of Notre Dame. In spring of 2015, she will have earned an MFA in fiction from the Writer's Foundry at St. Joseph's College in Brooklyn, New York. This is her first print publication.

George Saunders is the acclaimed author of several collections of short stories. His latest collection is Tenth of December. His work frequently appears in the New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ; and he was named by the New Yorker in 1999 as one of 20 writers under 40 who have shaped contemporary fiction.

Mark Hitz was born and raised in Idaho. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Writing at the University of Texas, Austin, where he is a Michener Fellow and recipient of the 2014 Keene Prize for Literature. "Shadehill" is his first published work.

Barbara Ganley writes fiction and nonfiction, takes photographs, and creates digital stories from her Vermont barn. She is currently working on a collection of stories. "Language Lessons" is her first short story in print.

Greg Schreur teaches high school English in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has had short fiction appear online, and nonfiction published in The Broken Plate and Brain, Child, among other publications, including the anthology Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting. "Third World Kroger" is his first fiction accepted for print publication.

Sommer Schafer received her MFA at San Francisco State University in 2013. You can read her first publications in Barge Journal, Eleven Eleven, kill author, Fiction 365, Santa Monica Review, and now here! All stories are part of an as-yet-unpublished collection of connected stories called My Father's Memoirs.

Marko Gregur writes poetry and prose, which have been published in many magazines and newspapers. He won several awards in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Spain. His works have been translated into English, Russian, and Bulgarian. He published a collection of poetry, Lirska grafomanija, and a collection of stories, Peglica u prosincu. He has been included in an anthology of young Croatian prose writers, Bez vrata, bez kucanja.

Benjamin Percy is the author of two novels, Red Moon and The Wilding, as well as two books of short stories, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk. His fiction and nonfiction have been read on National Public Radio, performed at Symphony Space, and published by Esquire (where he is a contributing editor), GQ, Time, Men s Journal, Outside, the Wall Street Journal, Paris Review, McSweeney s, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and Tin House. He also writes for Detective Comics.

Samsun Knight is a recent graduate from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. He is currently working on a novel. "Family of Four" is his first off-campus print publication.

David Ebenbach is the author of two books of short stories--Into the Wilderness--and Between Camelots--plus a chapbook of poetry entitled Autogeography, and a nonfiction guide to creativity called The Artist's Torah. He teaches at Georgetown University.

Gillian Burnes's reporting has appeared in Outside, OnEarth, Wilderness, and other magazines, and was briefly broadcast from WUNC-FM public radio before it was discovered she had a voice for print. Now a freelance copy editor who works for Skiing, SKI, the Outside Buyer's Guide, and other publications, she lives in central Maine. "Transit" is her first published short story.