Maria Marchinkoski is a fiction candidate in the MFA program at Syracuse. She earned her Master's in English from Harvard, where she is a PhD candidate. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Millions, Washington Square Review, Quarterly West, The Carolina Quarterly, Joyland and Harvard Review. In 2022, she was a recipient of a Mass Cultural Council Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellowship. She is currently writing a novel about impersonation, obsession, and the lives of trans women in Boston. Her newest short story is forthcoming in n+1.