Fresh Picked Prose

Sakinah Hofler is from Newark, New Jersey. She is an MFA candidate at Florida State University where she serves as Assistant Fiction Editor for The Southeast Review. She is also a  2015-2016 recipient of the Kingsbury Fellowship. Besides fiction, she loves writing poetry and screenplays.

Billy Hallal was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He studies creative writing at Florida State University, where he will soon receive his MFA.

Jennifer Schomburg Kanke, Visiting Faculty at FSU is an Ohio native. Her work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Pleiades and many other literary magazines.

Billy Hallal was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He studies creative writing at Florida State University, where he will soon receive his MFA.

Lauren Lee Fusilier hails from the heart of Cajun country in Louisiana. Florida State University, where she earned an MFA in Fiction, brought her out to Tallahassee.

This May, Ron Paul Salutsky will graduate with the PhD in English from FSU.  A native Kentuckian, Salutsky's first book, Romeo Bones, was published in 2013 by Steel Toe Books.

Micah Dean Hicks is a PhD student in creative writing at Florida State University. He writes stories about Southern experience and modern fairy tales. His book, Electricity and Other Dreams, was published in November.

Charlie Beckerman is a 3rd year MFA in Fiction at Florida State University.

Chris Mink is a 4th year PhD poet at Florida State University.

Laura Steadham Smith is a third-year MFA student Florida State University.