SPOTLIGHT | Bird Marathe

SPOTLIGHT | Bird Marathe

Bird Marathe was last year's third-place recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction.  Submissions to this year's contest are due midnight, New Years Eve. Submit here! Q: Tell us a little bit about yourself (Other than being a writer, what else?)Bird Marathe: Once I tried to clean a shadow off ... Read More
SPOTLIGHT | Jill Birdsall

SPOTLIGHT | Jill Birdsall

Jill Birdsall was last year's first-place recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction.  Submissions to this year's contest are due midnight, New Years Eve. Submit here! Q: Tell us a little bit about yourself.  Jill Birdsall: I live in a house built from salvaged materials where unlike the narrator ... Read More
On Vauville

On Vauville

I am a screen and fiction writer born in Rome and raised as a teenager in Los Angeles, where I became obsessed with canyons, quartz, and the Grateful Dead. When I moved to New York in my early twenties, I steered my fascinations towards the discovery that a huge slab ... Read More