Marguerite Sheffer
Marguerite Sheffer is the author of The Man in the Banana Trees (University of Iowa Press, 2024) winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her stories appear in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Epiphany, The Adroit Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Smokelong Quarterly, and BOMB, among other magazines. Formerly, she was a high school teacher in Oakland, and now teaches design thinking and speculative fiction for social change at Tulane University in New Orleans.