Shelly Stewart Cato’s writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Rattle, Poet Lore, Washington Square Review, Harpur Palate, and New Ohio Review. She lived in the Mississippi Delta for 25 years and now writes near the Warrior River in Walker County, Alabama. She is passionate about genre bending and short forms, blurring lines between truth and imagination. She is
Shabnam Nadiya was selected for The Ice Machine, her translation from the Bangla of Bangladeshi short story writer and novelist Wasi Ahmed’s Borofkol. The six winning books from the shortlist will receive publishing guidance from English PEN, and be matched up with UK publishers.