Mekiya Outini is an award-winning author, editor, and MacDowell Fellow with 10+ years of experience reading, writing, editing, teaching, and tutoring. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fourth Genre, The North American Review, The Coachella Review, Chautauqua, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and a BFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. ​​