2018-2019 Steinbeck Fellows
Katie M. Flynn’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Joyland Magazine, Juked, Ninth Letter, Witness Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of Colorado Review’sNelligan Prize for Short Fiction and a fellowship from the San Francisco Writers’
Grotto and serves as fiction editor at Split Lip Magazine.
Laura Goode is the author of the novel SISTER MISCHIEF (Candlewick Press, 2011), and the collection
of poems BECOME A NAME (Fathom Books, 2016); she co-wrote and produced the feature
film FARAH GOES BANG, which premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival and won the
inaugural Nora Ephron Prize from Tribeca and Vogue. Her essays have appeared in Refinery29, BuzzFeed, ELLE, Glamour, New York Magazine, New Republic, Longreads, Catapult, and elsewhere. She received her BA and MFA from Columbia University and lives in
San Francisco.
Meng Jin's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Masters Review, The Baltimore Review, Arkansas International, The Bare
Life Review, and elsewhere. A Kundiman fellow, she has received support from the Hunter College
MFA, Hedgebrook, VSC, M on the Bund, the David TK Wong Fellowship, and the Elizabeth
George Foundation. She was born in Shanghai and currently lives in San Francisco,
where she is finishing her first novel.
Kirin Khan is a writer living in Oakland, CA who calls Albuquerque, New Mexico her hometown,
and Peshawar, Pakistan her homeland. A 2016 VONA/Voices and 2017 Las Dos Brujas alum,
2017 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow, 2017 SF Writers Grotto Fellow, and 2018 AWP Writer
to Writer Mentee, her work has appeared in The Margins, Your Impossible Voice, 7x7 LA, and sPARKLE & bLINK. Kirin is working on her first novel.
Jill Logan has an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Teaching Fellow.
Her fiction and essays have appeared in Zyzzyva, Michigan Quarterly Review, Crazyhorse, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere and have won a Writers at Work Fellowship and the Katherine Anne Porter
Award for Fiction. She’s a Lecturer at San José State University and currently at
work on her novel The Fracking.
Christine Vines recently received her MFA in fiction from Cornell University, where she currently
teaches English and creative writing. Her work has appeared in Joyland, Electric Literature, and The Writer's Chronicle, and was selected as a fiction finalist for the 2017 Jeffrey E. Smith Editor's Prize
by The Missouri Review. Four four years, she ran the Fiction Addiction Reading Series in NYC.