Her writing has appeared in The Believer, BOMB, The Collagist, Conjunctions, Electric Literature, NOON, and Words Without Borders, and on. Mary is also a former intern in The New Yorker's fiction department and a Bread Loaf work-study fellow. For many years, she has worked as an editor at the literary journal NOON. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and the MFA program in fiction at Columbia University. Twitter: Instagram: South is the author of the short story collection, You Will Never Be Forgotten, forthcoming in March from FSG Originals. She is from Cleveland, Ohio, and is currently working on her first novel. Yet all of her beautifully strange characters are possessed by a familiar and human longing for connection: to their homes, families, God, and themselves. They find themselves in bathhouses, sports bars, grocery stores, and forests in search of exits, pink tennis balls, licorice, and independence. In this collection of compact fictions, Nicolette Polek transports us to a gently unsettling realm inhabited by disheveled landlords, a fugitive bride, a seamstress who forgets what people look like, and two rival falconers from neighboring towns. Twenty-six surreal miniatures about displacement, mystery, and transformation from the winner of a 2019 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award.
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