Some of what we'll discover will be spooky, some of it will be funny. The goal is to see how these narratives give us mirror images—sometimes distorted, sometimes not distorted enough—of the world we find ourselves in.
JUAN MARTINEZ is the author of the novel Extended Stay (2023) and the story collection Best Worst American (2017). He lives near Chicago and is an associate professor at Northwestern University. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Huizache, Ecotone, The Sunday Morning Transport, NIGHTMARE, NPR's Selected Shorts, Mississippi Review and elsewhere.
