G. M. Monks lives in Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Coneflower Cafe, Birdland Journal, The Hunger, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, The RavensPerch, Kaaterskill Basin Literary Journal, Kansas City Voices, Alehouse, and elsewhere. Awards with publication include: finalist in the 2020 Breakwater Review Fiction Contest, and runner-up in the 2016 Big Wonderful Press Funny Poem contest. She was a finalist in the 2020 Arts and Letters Unclassifiable Fiction Contest and she received an honorable mention in the 2016 New Millennium Writings Award competition. Her debut novel, Iola O, was nominated for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for New Fiction.

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