Kendra Fortmeyer

Kendra Fortmeyer is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer whose fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016, One Story, The Toast, Lightspeed, and elsewhere. She attended the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ workshop in 2016, and received her MFA in fiction from the New Writers Project at UT Austin. Her debut magical realist YA novel, Hole in the Middle, is forthcoming from Little, Brown in July 2017. She loves mermaids, the word “swamp,” and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Find her at www.kendrafortmeyer.com or on Twitter at @kendraffe.