SLICE
ISSUE 22
New York by living in Minnesota and
working in content strategy and be-
havior design. Believe it or not, writing
error messages for app log-ins really isn’t
that different from writing headlines for
book ads.
MARY ANN NEWMAN
translates
from Catalan and Spanish. She was
awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi in 1998.
She is executive director of the Farragut
Fund for Catalan Culture in the United
States, co-chair of the PEN Translation
Committee, a board member of the
Catalan Institute of America, a member
of the North American Catalan Society,
and a visiting scholar at the NYU
Center for European and Mediterranean
Studies.
STEPHEN O’CONNOR is the author
of five books, most recently Thomas
Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings, a
novel, and Here Comes Another Lesson,
short stories. His fiction has appeared
in the New Yorker, Best American Short
Stories, and many other places. He
teaches in the Sarah Lawrence MFA
writing program.
EUNICE PAK is a recent NYU gradu-
ate who is currently working as a sales
assistant at Macmillan Publishers.
When she isn’t wringing her hands over
her writing, she is attempting to social-
ize, missing her dog, and fretting over
Instagram filters.
EMMA RAMADAN is a literary
translator based in Providence, Rhode
Island, where she runs the bookstore
bar Riffraff. She is the recipient of an
NEA fellowship, a PEN/Heim grant,
and a Fulbright. Her translations
include Fouad Laroui’s The Curious
Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers and Anne
Garréta’s Sphinx and Not One Day.
KAROLINA RAMQVIST is one of
the most influential writers and femi-
nists of her generation in Sweden. She
had her breakthrough in 2009 with
the critically acclaimed book The
Girlfriend, and in 2015 she was awarded
the prestigious P. O. Enquist Literary
Prize for her latest novel, The White
City. She lives in Stockholm with her
husband and three children.
RAQUEL SALAS RIVERA is a
queer Puerto Rican poet and transla-
tor who lives in Philadelphia. You can
learn more about their work by visiting
raquelsalasrivera.com. Raquel Salas
Rivera es una poeta y traductora cuir y
puertorriqueña que vive en Filadelfia.
Puedes leer más sobre su trabajo si visi-
tas raquelsalasrivera.com.
SAÏD SAYRAFIEZADEH
is the
author of the memoir When Skateboards
Will Be Free and the short story collec-
tion Brief Encounters with the Enemy.
His stories and essays have appeared in
the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the
New York Times, and Granta. He teaches
creative writing at NYU and Hunter
College.
JOSIE SCHOEL ’s writing has ap-
peared in Fringe Magazine, House
Organ, A Kind of a Hurricane Press, and
other publications. Her writing on early
modern material culture will be featured
in Dynamic Matter, a forthcoming essay
collection from Penn State University
Press. She teaches literature and writing
at the University at Albany, SUNY. She
is currently working on her first collec-
tion of poems.
MELISSA R. SIPIN ’s work is
in Guernica, Prairie Schooner, and Black
Warrior Review. Her fiction has
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won Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open as
well as fellowships from the MacDowell
Colony and Poets & Writers. She is hard
at work on a novel about her grand-
mother’s capture during WWII in the
Philippines. Find out more at
msipin.com.
NEAL THOMPSON is the author of
four previous nonfiction books, includ-
ing A Curious Man and Driving with
the Devil. He lives in Seattle with his
family.
SASKIA VOGEL is from Los Angeles
and lives in Berlin, where she works
as a writer and Swedish-to-English
literary translator. Her debut novel, I
Am a Pornographer, will be published
in 2019. She has written on power
and sexuality for publications such
as Granta, the White Review, and the
Offing. Her translations include works
by Karolina Ramqvist, Lina Wolff, and
Lena Andersson.
RANDY WINSTON
is the associ-
ate fiction editor at SLICE literary
magazine. Winston received his MFA
in creative writing-fiction from the New
School. He writes about death, religion,
and politics in times unknown and
worlds that are far away but much like
our own. Randy is represented by Ed
Maxwell at Greenburger Associates.
PAUL YOON ’s most recent book is The
Mountain.
TARA ISABEL ZAMBRANO is an
electrical engineer by profession. Her
work has appeared or is forthcoming in
the Minnesota Review, Gargoyle, Storm
Cellar, Moon City Review, and other
journals. She lives in Texas with her
husband and two kids.
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SOFIA BONATI COVER, PP 1, 10 MATT WISNIEWSKI P 73 PATTI MOLLICA P 110
JANUZ MIRALLES P 22 HUMBERTO BARAJAS
BUSTAMANTE P 77 LARS ELLING P 124
behance.net/soffronia
nuestra.tumblr.com
MARISSA LEVIEN P 32
marissalevien.com
ALEX BECK P 45
alexthebeck.com
AMANDA GREIVE P 57
amandagreive.com
mattw.art
stranger-bot.deviantart.com
NEGAR FARAJIANI P 81
negarfarajiani.com
DOUGLAS P. LOBO PP 92-93
behance.net/water_in_black
MARQUS BOBESICH P 96
twitter.com/MarqusBobesich
pattimollica.com
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The art featured in SLICE has been
curated and carefully paired with the
writing throughout. It was not created for
this issue specifically, unless otherwise
noted. Many thanks to these incredible
artists for lending us their works.