Lindsay Merbaum is a Bay Area fiction writer and freelancer whose work has appeared in Pank, Electric Literature, Harpur Palate, Anomalous Press, The Collagist, Dzanc Books Best of the Web, Hobart, Epiphany and The Brooklyn Review, among others. She is currently at work on a novel. For more information, visit lindsaymerbaum.com.
Zarina Zabrisky talks about her new book, Explosion, the art of the short story, Russia and Ukraine, and being "a Jewish pessimist in the spirit of Shalom Aleichem."