© Noreen Graf

© Noreen Graf

 

Noreen Graf: “I was a 2022 finalist in Solstice Literary Fiction contest, a 2021 finalist in the James Jones First Book Contest, and the runner up in the Chester B Himes Short Fiction Prize. My poetry, flash, short fiction, and graphic literature has appeared in Ocotillo Review, Dirty Chai, MERliterary Oyedrum, and Political Irony. I am currently an MFA student, finishing my degree in the Creative Writing program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. I was recently nominated for a pushcart award for my story “Playing Dead.”