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Spinning Away from the Center

By Ethan Laughman & Ed Allen &
Spinning Away from the Center by Ethan Laughman & Ed Allen &  digital book - Fable

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These stories offer layered, perceptive takes on what home means to us. The people we meet in these stories are often traveling to and from home—thinking about where they have come from, where they are headed, and how that journey will impact their futures. Although the stories approach homecoming and homesickness through varied moods and styles, they all come around to confronting a shared need: a place to call home.

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Ed Allen

ED ALLEN, an associate professor of English at the University of South Dakota, has also worked as a taxi driver, butcher, and salesman. Allen's novel Mustang Sally has been adapted into a film, Easy Six.

Toni Graham

TONI GRAHAM, a native of San Francisco, teaches creative writing at Oklahoma State University, where she serves as editor in chief and fiction editor for the Cimarron Review. She is the author of two story collections: Waiting for Elvis, winner of the John Gardner Book Award, and The Daiquiri Girls, winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction.

Karin Lin-Greenberg

KARIN LIN-GREENBERG’s fiction has appeared in literary journals including the Antioch Review, Epoch, Kenyon Review Online, and North American Review. She lives and teaches creative writing in upstate New York.

Becky Mandelbaum

BECKY MANDELBAUM is the author of Bad Kansas, winner of the 2016 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and the 2018 High Plains Book Award for First Book. Her work has appeared in the Missouri Review, the Georgia Review, the Rumpus, Necessary Fiction, Hobart, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and has been featured on Medium. Originally from Kansas, she currently lives in Washington's Skagit Valley and teaches at Seattle’s Hugo House.

C. M. Mayo

C. M. MAYO is the author of several books on Mexico including The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, a novel based on the true story and named a Library Journal Best Book. Her collection Meteor won the Gival Press Poetry Award. A native of El Paso, she is member of the Texas Institute of Letters.

Christopher McIlroy

CHRISTOPHER "KIT" McILROY lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he is an author-in-residence for the Tucson Unified School District. His story collection All My Relations won the Flannery O’Connor Award in 1992. Between 1987 and 2010 he developed and implemented writing programs for the non-profit ArtsReach, which served Native American communities in southern Arizona. Some of those experiences were distilled into the nonfiction book Here I Am a Writer, which was published in 2011.

Peter Meinke

PETER MEINKE has published stories and poems in the Atlantic, Redbook, Yankee, the New Yorker, New Republic, and Virginia Quarterly Review. His stories have twice been included in the O'Henry Award volumes and once in Best American Short Stories. In 1975 he studied in Africa and in 1978-79 he was a Fulbright lecturer in Poland. He is director of the writing workshop at Eckerd College.

Paul Rawlins

PAUL RAWLINS' fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Southeast Review, Sycamore Review,Tampa Review, and Prism. He lives in Salt Lake City.

Monica McFawn

MONICA MCFAWN is a writer, comedian, and artist
living in Michigan. Her short story collection Bright Shards of Someplace Else won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her comedy writing has appeared in The Offing and The Belladonna, and has been staged at Second City’s Mary Scruggs Works by Women Festival. McFawn is a recipient of a NEA Fellowship in Literature and Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She is an associate professor at Northern Michigan University, where she teaches fiction and scriptwriting. When she isn’t writing, drawing, or teaching, she trains horses and cats.

iamak Vossoughi

SIAMAK VOSSOUGHI is an Iranian-American writer whose collection Better Than War came out in 2015. The collection was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. He has received a fiction
fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He lives in San Francisco.

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