Gwen E. Kirby is the winner of the 2017 DISQUIET Literary Prize in Fiction. Her stories appear in Mississippi Review, Ninth Letter, New Ohio Review, New Delta Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Johns Hopkins University and is currently pursing her PhD at the University of Cincinnati. During the summer, you can find her in Tennessee working as fiction faculty at the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference and staff at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.