Brooke Shaffner’s novel Country of Under was the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction runner-up and was shortlisted for Dzanc Books’ Prize for Fiction and Black Lawrence Press’s Big Moose Prize. An excerpt won the Asheville Writers’ Workshop Fiction Contest. Brooke’s work has appeared in The Hudson Review, Marie Claire, BOMB, Litmosphere: Journal of Charlotte Lit, Lost and Found: Stories from New York, and The Lit Pub. She’s received grants from United States Artists and the Saltonstall Foundation and residencies from MacDowell, Ucross, Saltonstall, Edward Albee, Jentel, I-Park, and VCCA. Brooke is at work on a memoir that explores living and loving in the face of radical uncertainty. An excerpt won the 2023 Lit/South Award, judged by Melissa Febos. Brooke founded Between the Lines and is co-creating Freedom Tunnel Press with her partner Niteesh Elias. Read more about Country of Under at BrookeShaffner.com.