Madeline FfitchMadeline ffitch is the author of the novel Stay and Fight, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and a Lambda Literary Prize, as well as the story collection Valparaiso, Round the Horn. She cofounded the punk theater company Missoula Oblongata and was part of the rural direct action collective Appalachia Resist, which took as its commitments environmental and racial justice. Her writing has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, Tin House, Granta, n+1, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Creative Capital State of the Art Prize and two O. Henry Prizes and was included in the 2024 Best American Short Stories anthology. She lives with her children in the hills of Appalachian Ohio. Read More Read Less