ANGELA MITCHELL:  UNNATURAL HABITATS AND OTHER STORIES

Angela Mitchell’s stories have appeared in Colorado Review, New South, Carve, Midwestern Gothic, storySouth, Natural Bridge, and other journals. Her story, “Animal Lovers,” was awarded Colorado Review’s Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction (selected by judge, Robert Boswell) and was given special mention in The Pushcart Prize XXXV and noted as a distinguished story in the inaugural issue of New Stories from the Midwest. She holds degrees from the University of New Orleans, University of Arkansas, and University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she received her MFA in Creative Writing, and has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference as a Tennessee Williams Scholar. She is an eighth generation native of southern Missouri, where she maintains a small farm on her family’s land, and resides in St. Louis with her husband and sons. UNNATURAL HABITATS is her first book. Visit her online here.

JACQUELINE KOLOSOV:  WHEREFORE

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A WTAW PRESS FEATURES LIMITED EDITION CHAPBOOK

Jacqueline Kolosov has published book-length fiction and poetry and co-edited three anthologies of prose, most recently Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of Eight Hybrid Literary Genres, Winner of Foreword’s Gold Medal for IndieFab Writing. Her books include The Red Queen’s Daughter (Hyperion) and Memory of Blue (Salmon Poetry). She is the recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship in Prose and has published her writing in journals including The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, and Orion. A native of Chicago, she now lives in West Texas and serves on the Creative Writing Faculty at Texas Tech University. “Wherefore” is part of a book-length memoir, “Motherhood, and the Places Between,” which won the 2015 Mary Robert Rinehart Award selected by W. Ralph Eubanks.