1/29/26, Rebecca Fishow/Virtual Thursdays Dire Literary Series, plus Q and A with Timothy Gager

Описание: Rebecca Fishow is a prose writer, creative writing instructor, and visual artist. Her story collection, The Trouble With Language (Trnsfr Books, 2020), won the 2019 Holland Prize for Fiction. Her fiction chapbook, The Opposite of Entropy, was published in 2018 by Proper Tales Press. Her work has appeared in Quarterly West, Tin House, Joyland, The Believer, Logger, Smokelong Quarterly, Hobart, and other publications. She holds an MFA from Syracuse University, is pursing a PhD in literature and writing from The University of Illinois Chicago. She lives in Chicago with her husband, the linguist, Dan Goodhue. Learn more about Rebecca Fishow at her website.
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Timothy Gager is the author of 20 books of fiction and poetry, which includes his fourth novel, Shadows of the Seen, and his most recent collection of poetry, Almost Bluing for X-Tra Whiteness. He hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, MA from 2001 to 2018, and started a weekly virtual series in 2020. He has had over 1000 works of fiction and poetry published, 19 nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work also has been nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award, The Best of the Web, The Best Small Fictions Anthology and has been read on National Public Radio.

In 2023, Big Table Publishing published an anthology of twenty years of his selected work, with 175 pages of new material: The Best of Timothy Gager.

Timothy is the former Fiction Editor of The Wilderness House Literary Review, and the founding co-editor of The Heat City Literary Review. He also co-hosts the podcast "the 2 deans: Dating, Dread, and Disasters". A graduate of the University of Delaware, Timothy lives in Dedham, Massachusetts, and is employed as a social worker.