G. M. Monks, a native Californian, now lives in Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in the Best of Choeofpleirn Press, The Militant Grammarian, L’Esprit Literary Review, Birdland Journal, The Hunger, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, The RavensPerch, Kansas City Voices, and elsewhere. Awards with publication include finalist in Ben Nyberg Fiction Contest 2022, 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 Arts and Letters 2020 Unclassifiables Fiction Contest and received an honorable mention in the 2016 New Millennium Writings Award competition. Two of her stories were nominated for Best American Short Stories 2023, one of which was also nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her debut novel, Iola O, was nominated for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for New Fiction. For more about her, visit gmmonks.blog.

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