Avital Gad-Cykman

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Gender Female
Industry Arts
Introduction I am the author of the flash collection "Life In, Life Out" (Matter Press) and the flash and story collection "Light Reflection Over Blues" (Ravenna Press). http://ravennapress.com/books/light-reflection-over-blues/ My work has appeared in The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Ambit (UK), The Literary Review, CALYX Journal, Glimmer Train, McSweeney’s Quarterly, Prism International, Michigan Quarterly Review and elsewhere. Other stories have been featured in anthologies such as W.W. Norton's Flash Fiction International, Sonder Press's Best Small Fictions 2020, Politically Inspired Fiction, and The Best of Gigantic. My flashes have been twice listed in Best of the WEB, Wigleaf. I am the winner of Margaret Atwood Studies Magazine Prize and first placed in The Hawthorne Citation Short Story Contest. My story collections were finalists for the Iowa Fiction award and a story listed by The London Independent Story Prize. My PhD in English Literature focuses on women authors, gender, minorities and trauma studies. I grew up in Israel, and live in Brazil.