Marguerite Sheffer

Marguerite Sheffer’s debut, The Man in the Banana Trees, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a Finalist for the PEN America Robert W. Bingham Prize. The collection was named a “Best Debut Book” by Debutiful and a “Most Exciting Debut Story Collection” by Electric Literature. Her stories appear in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Epiphany, BOMB, The Cosmic Background, and LitHub. She is a founding member of Third Lantern Lit, and a member of the Water Collaborative’s Brackish Artist Collective. She teaches design thinking and speculative fiction as tools for social change at Tulane and is working on a novel.