Summer 2018

Traci Brimhall is the author of Saudade (Copper Canyon, 2017), Our Lady of the Ruins (Norton, 2012), and Rookery (Southern Illinois, 2010).

Sergio García Sánchez is a cartoonist and illustrator, and is coauthor, with Nadja Spiegelman, of the graphic novel Lost in NYC: A Subway Adventure (TOON, 2015).

Mitchell S. Jackson’s debut novel, The Residue Years (Bloomsbury, 2013), won the Ernest J.

Carmen Maria Machado’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Tin House, the Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction &

Maurice Carlos Ruffin is a VQR columnist.