Mark Wagstaff is Third Prize winner in our 2018 Fall/Winter Fiction Contest. Since the 1990s, Mark has published stories in journals and anthologies in the US and UK. Most recently his work has appeared in The Stray Branch, Tethered by Letters and The New Guard. Mark won the 39th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest with Attack of the Lonely Hearts, published by Anvil Press. His story “Some Secret Space” won the 2013 William Van Wert Fiction Award, and in 2012 Mark’s story “Burn Lines” won The New Guard Machigonne Fiction Contest, judged by Rick Bass. His second short story collection, also called Burn Lines, was published in 2014 by InkTears. Gina Ochsner described the stories in Burn Lines as “lyrically intrepid” while Rick Bass found them “sweetly ominous.” Currently, Mark is studying on the MFA program at The New School in New York. Details of his work are at www.markwagstaff.com.