Marléne Zadig wanted to be an astronaut but she studied ecology in the Kenyan bush and then became a writer, mother, and teacher instead. Her short fiction made Longform’s Top 5 list of Best Fiction in 2015 and has appeared in
Slice Magazine, Green Mountains Review Online, Blunderbuss Magazine, The Adirondack Review, and elsewhere. She’s a 2016
storySouth Million Writers Award nominee, a 2015 Best of the Net finalist, and the runner-up for the 2015 Fulton Prize for Short Fiction. She lives in Berkeley and online at
marlenezadig.com.
