Orange background with photo of Mariah Gese and text announcing their story "Choose Your Own Sorrow" as fiction winner of HFR contest, selected by Gwen Kirby.

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Quote from Gwen Kirby about the winning story by Mariah Gese

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Mariah Gese is an artist and writer from a haunted swamp in New York. They received their MFA from Indiana University, where they were the Editor in Chief of Indiana Review. They like plants, math, and other scary things. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Black Warrior Review, Shenandoah, Adroit Journal, Split Lip Magazine, The Offing, Cleaver Magazine, Lunch Ticket, and Speculative Nonfiction.

"Choose Your Own Sorrow" by Mariah Gese