L. Shapley Bassen

A New Yorker-transplant in Rhode Island, she writes poetry/fiction/reviews. The coda chapter of her novel NEW MARWA is a fast read at beneaththerainbow.com/that-is-the-question/. "Portrait of a Giant Squid" was the First Place winner in the 2015 Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest. Published 3x in The Kenyon Review.  Was editor at prickofthespindle.org [archived], now at www.craftliterary.com; indie-published Summer of the Long Knives (Signal 8 Press), Lives of Crime & Other Stories (Texture Press), and Showfolk & Stories [Inkception Books]; finalist for the 2011 Flannery O’Connor Award, a 1st reader for Electric Literature, won the 2009 APP Drama Prize, a Mary Roberts Rinehart Fellowship, and poetry/fiction reviewer for The Rumpus, etc.