Caketrain Issue 11

By Pamela Gesualdi, Jon Cone, Stella Corso, and more

2014

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4.71

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262

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7H57M

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Caketrain

Series · 7 books

By Jeanne Stauffer-Merle, Marc Kipniss, Michael Trocchia, and more

The eleventh issue of Caketrain, featuring new work from Joseph Aguilar, Jessica Alexander, N. Michelle AuBuchon, C Dylan Bassett, Ruth Baumann, Matt Bell, Eric Lloyd Blix, Trevor Calvert, Hunter Choate, Benjamin Clemenzi-Allen, Jon Cone, Stella Corso, Patty Yumi Cottrell, Lindsey Drager, Tim Earley, Sarah Rose Etter, Knar Gavin, Pamela Gesualdi, A.T. Grant, Lindsay Herko, Robert Lopez, Matthew Mahaney, Elizabeth Mikesch, Muxxi, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, Eleanor Perry, W.R. Porter, Meghan Privitello, Jessica Richardson, Alan Sondheim, Emma Sovich, Boyd Spahr, Adam Strauss, Sara Veglahn, Tom Whalen. Edited by Amanda Raczkowski, Joseph Reed, Tanner Hadfield and Katy Mongeau.

Avg Rating

4.71

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Authors

Caketrain Journal and Press

Author · 4 books

Founded in 2003, Caketrain is a literary journal and press based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their interest is in bringing readers the very best in contemporary creative writing. Editors: Amanda Raczkowski and Joseph Reed.

Benjamin Clemenzi-Allen

Matt Bell’s next novel, Appleseed, was published by Custom House in July 2021. His craft book Refuse to Be Done, a guide to novel writing, rewriting, & revision, will follow in early 2022 from Soho Press. He is also the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur's Gate II, and several other titles. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Orion, Tin House, Conjunctions, Fairy Tale Review, American Short Fiction, and many other publications. A native of Michigan, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.

Sara Veglahn was born and raised in the American Midwest. Her novel, The Mayflies, was recently published by Dzanc in May 2014. An excerpt from her novel, The Ladies, was recently published as a chapbook by New Herring Press. She is also the author of three other chapbooks: Closed Histories (Noemi Press, 2008); Falling Forward (Braincase Press, 2003); and Another Random Heart, recently republished by Letter Machine Editions (2009). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Caketrain, Conjunctions, Sleepingfish, Octopus, Fence, 26, Trickhouse, Tarpaulin Sky, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in writing from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a PhD in literature and writing from the University of Denver. She currently lives in Denver.

Her experimental novels have won a John Gardner Fiction Prize and a Shirley Jackson Award; been listed as a “Best Book of the Year” in The Guardian and NPR; and twice been named a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Her work has received support from the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Study, the I-Park Foundation, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. The recipient of a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Prose, she is currently at work on two speculative multimedia projects.

Sarah Rose Etter is the author of Tongue Party, and The Book of X, winner of a Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel. Her second novel, RIPE, is forthcoming from Scribner in July 2023. Her work has appeared in Time, Guernica, BOMB, The Bennington Review, The Cut, VICE, and elsewhere. She has been awarded residences at the Jack Kerouac House, the Disquiet International program in Portugal, and the Gullkistan Writing Residency in Iceland. She earned her BA in English from Pennsylvania State University and her MFA in fiction from Rosemont College. She lives in Los Angeles. For more info, visit SarahRoseEtter.com.

Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint

Hunter Choate lives in Orlando, Florida. He enjoys giving wrong directions to tourists. His fiction has recently appeared in Feathertale and elimae. He blogs at timecrook.blogspot.com. His stories have appeared in decomP, Word Riot, and two Burrow Press collections, among others. He joined Burrow Press Review as the fiction editor in November 2012. New work is forthcoming in Redivider Issue 11.2.

Matthew Mahaney

Author · 3 books

Matthew Mahaney is the author of The Plural Space (salò press, 2016), The Storm That Bears Your Name (The Cupboard, 2015) and Your Attraction to Sharp Machines (BatCat Press, 2013). He is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Alabama, and he currently lives in Madison.