C. Morgan Babst is a native of New Orleans. She studied writing at NOCCA, Yale, and NYU, and her essays and short fiction have appeared in such journals as Garden and Gun, The Oxford American, Guernica, The Harvard Review, and New Orleans Review. The Floating World is her first novel. Olivia Kate Cerrone's Pushcart Prize-nominated fiction won Crab Orchard Review's Jack Dyer Fiction Prize. The Hunger Saint, a historical novella about the child miners of Sicily, was praised by Kirkus Reviews as "a well-crafted and affecting literary tale." Heather Harpham is a writer, teacher and theater artist whose fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in Slate, Parents, More, Water~Stone Review and Red Magazine in the UK. Her memoir, Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After, was released in 2017 and selected for Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers Series as well as being an Indie Next pick. The Half-Drowned King and The Sea Queen are the first two books in Linnea Hartsuyker's trilogy of novels about Viking Age Norway. The Sea Queen will be published by HarperCollins on August 14, 2018, and the final volume, The Golden Wolf, will come out in 2019. Emily X.R. Pan is the author of The Astonishing Color of After. She is a co-creator of Foreshadow, a YA anthology, the founding editor-in-chief of Bodega Magazine, and a 2017 Artist-in-Residence at Djerassi.
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