2013 Award Winners

Wendy is a PhD candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she teaches courses in children’s, Gothic, and sci-fi literature. Her short fiction has received two Pushcart Prize nominations and appears in The Baltimore Review, [PANK], Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. She’s currently working on novel manuscripts for Young Adult and Middle Grade readers.

Jen Fawkes’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in One Story, The Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Barrelhouse, and other journals, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She holds an MFA from Hollins University and a BA from Columbia University.

Jill Osier lives in Fairbanks, Alaska. She’s the author of two chapbooks, Bedful of Nebraskas and Should Our Undoing Come Down Upon Us White.