Miriam Gershow and Stephanie Austin will discuss the messy intimacies at the heart of their recent books, Miriam’s short story collection, Survival Tips (Propeller Books) and Stephanie's nonfiction chapbook, Something I Might Say (WTAW Press). Whether it is the bonds between family, friends, or near strangers, they will examine how the muddle of contradictory feelings is often what reveals the truth. 

Miriam Gershow is the author of The Local News, Survival Tips: Stories and the forthcoming novel, Closer. Miriam’s stories appear in The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast and Black Warrior Review, among other journals. Her flash fiction appears in anthologies from Alan Squire Books and Alternating Currents, as well as in Pithead Chapel, Had, and Variant Lit, where she is the inaugural winner of the Pizza Prize. Her creative nonfiction is featured in Salon and Craft Literary among other journals. She is the recipient of a Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and an Oregon Literary Fellowship, as well as writing residencies at Playa, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Hypatia-in-the-Woods, and Wildacres.

Stephanie Austin is the author of the CNF chapbook SOMETHING I MIGHT SAY from WTAW Press. Her short stories and essays have appeared in more than 25 literary journals including The Sun. You can find her in all the places: Twitter (X) @lucysky, Threads and IG @stephanie.d.austin, and on Substack stephanieaustin.substack.com. She lives in Arizona with her family.

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