Maria Marchinkoski is a fiction candidate at Syracuse. She earned her BA from the University of Vermont and her MA in English from Harvard, where she is a PhD candidate. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Joyland, The Kenyon Review, The Millions, Washington Square Review, Quarterly West, The Carolina Quarterly, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. 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.