Short Stories on the River

Daniel Coshnear lives in Guerneville, works at a group home for the un-housed and mentally ill, and teaches writing at UC Berkeley Extension, and in other north bay facilities. He is author of Jobs & Other Preoccupations (Helicon Nine 2001) winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Award and Occupy & Other Love Stories (Kelly's Cove Press 2012) and winner of the Novella Prize for Homesick, Redux (Flock 2015) His newest story collection, Separation Anxiety was released 10/21 by Unsolicited Press.

Judith Day is a psychotherapist in Sonoma County. In private practice since receiving her master’s degree in counseling from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 1985, she has also taught mindfulness meditation for 30 years. Her book Glowing in the Dark, Stories of Wounded Healers (Wordrunner Press, 2023) is a set of three stories inspired by her work as a therapist. A second book, Going Where They Belong, Stories (Wordrunner Press, 2024) is a collection of nine short stories, many of which were previously published in journals. She lives near the ocean with her husband of 40 years.

Katie M. Flynn is a writer, editor, and educator based in San Francisco. Her writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Tin House, and Tor.com, among other publications. She's been awarded Colorado Review's Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction and the Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing. Her first novel, The Companions, came out in March 2020 and opens during a prolonged pandemic where the living can't go out, but the dead can come in as companions. Her interlinked collection of short stories, Island Rule, is out now from Gallery Books.

Elizabeth Stix's linked short story collection, THINGS I WANT BACK FROM YOU, is out now from Black Lawrence Press. The Masters Review calls it "compulsively readable, deeply observational... precise, surprising, and off-handedly hilarious." The author Jonathan Lethem writes, "Stix's voice is dazzling – rueful, lyrical, incisive, and funny as hell." Her stories have appeared in McSweeney's, Tin House, Boulevard, The Los Angeles Times Sunday magazine, and have been performed live at Selected Shorts in New York and the New Short Fiction Series in LA. Her story “Alice” was optioned by Sneaky Little Sister Films. In the early 2000s, she founded the vanguard lit zine The Big Ugly Review. When she's not writing, she can be found staying up way too late doing the NYT Spelling Bee.

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