I wrote tenderness on a sticky note and stuck it on my computer monitor. The next person who wandered by my cubicle, I tried to hug. Their arms flailed like ribbons. I was fired. So that wasn’t it. At home, I made a...
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Stephanie Macias
Stephanie Macias is a Latinx writer, artist, and musician living in Austin, TX. She received an MFA in fiction from the University of Texas and has received support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Vermont Studio Center. Her stories have been long-listed, short-listed, and finalists for multiple prizes and nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize four times. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Epiphany, StoryQuarterly, Brink, No Tokens, Southern Humanities Review, Crazyhorse, and more. She is currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories.