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One Story is a literary magazine that contains, simply, one story. Approximately every three weeks, subscribers are sent One Story in the mail. This story will be an amazing read.
Each issue is artfully designed, lightweight, easy to carry, and ready to entertain on buses, in bed, in subways, in cars, in the park, in the bath, in the waiting rooms of doctors, on the couch in the afternoon or on line at the supermarket.
One Story is available only by subscription.
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We believe that short stories are best read alone. They should not be sandwiched in between a review and an exposé on liposuction, or placed after another work of fiction that is so sad or funny or long that the reader is worn out by the time they turn to it.
The experience of reading a story by itself is usually found only in MFA programs or writing workshops. This is a shame.
Besides, there is always time to read one story.
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Maribeth Batcha is the publisher and co-founder of One Story. She has worked in magazine circulation for over 15 years for titles including Diabetes Self-Management, Lingua Franca, University Business, The New York Review of Books, Working Mother, and The Progressive. In addition to circulation consulting, she currently does marketing and development copywriting for not-for-profits, including the 92nd Street Y and the National Academy Foundation. She has a BA from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She is an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College, teaching a revisions tutorial in their MFA Program.
Hannah Tinti developed her editorial skills working at literary agencies and magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review and Washington Square. Recently she won the 2009 PEN/Nora Magid award for her editorial work at One Story. Her short story collection, Animal Crackers, has sold in sixteen countries and was a runner up for the PEN/Hemingway award. Her novel, The Good Thief, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a recipient of the American Library Association’s Alex Award, and winner of the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. For more information, please visit www.hannahtinti.com.
Devin Emke has been programming for the web since 1996. In addition to One Story, he has worked as webmaster and custom software developer for Rapaport Publishing and Viacom Interactive Services. In 2002 Devin built the custom web-based submission management system for One Story magazine that he later developed into Submission Manager.
Tanya Rey is from the Miami area. She holds an MFA in fiction from New York University. Her work can be found online at McSweeney’s.
Marie-Helene’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Pushcart Prize Anthology XXXIII, The North American Review (Kurt Vonnegut Award 2007), Mississippi Review (2007 Story Prize), Inkwell, The Indiana Review and American Short Fiction. She received an MFA and The Himan Brown award from (no sleep ‘til) Brooklyn College, where she was the fiction editor for The Brooklyn Review. She is one of those people who never pipes down about being from Philly. Recently she finished a novel, an important next step toward her goal to be the first writer ever to appear on the cover of Poets and Writers in a swimsuit.
Pei-Ling Lue was born in Oshima, Japan and arrived in New York at the age of five wearing a red hat. She holds an MFA from New York University and was a finalist for Fiction Magazine’s contest for new writers. She teaches creative writing in Westchester County. In her other life, she is a Website Content Manager for cornerpoint.com. Pei-Ling takes time every day to save the short story.
Karen Friedman was raised in St. Louis, graduated from Vanderbilt University and now lives in Red Bank, NJ with her family. She is currently working on a novel during naptime. It does not involve vampires.
Jesse Hassenger was born and raised in Saratoga Springs, Upstate New York, which is why he gets really excited whenever a story or movie or TV show mentions Albany, Stewart’s, or Price Chopper. Now he lives in Brooklyn like all of the other writers. His short fiction has appeared in Brooklyn Review, Dirt, and Me Three; his film criticism appears in The L Magazine, PopMatters, and on filmcritic.com. His person criticism appears in passed notes and private emails. For information on what albums he may or may not be listening to and how recently he’s eaten cake, visit http://rockmarooned.livejournal.com.
Yuka Igarashi has worked as a researcher, a copywriter, and a book reviewer. Her work has appeared in Quick Fiction and Gigantic. She is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction at Columbia University. She teaches writing at Parsons The New School for Design.
Sarah Dozor is from northern California. She recently received her BA in English, creative writing, and Africana studies from New York University, where she was fiction editor for West 10th, NYU’s undergrad literary journal. She’s now had to reluctantly enter the world outside the Can Factory, and misses interning for One Story.
Sara Batkie was born in Seattle, cut her teeth in Connecticut, then grew up in the wilds of the Midwest, which she left almost immediately after graduating from the University of Iowa. She received her MFA from New York University, where she also taught undergrads and helped coordinate the Emerging Writers reading series.
Chris Gregory is a graduate of Connecticut College, and a native of New Jersey. He came to One Story as an intern in 2008 and they haven’t been able to get rid of him ever since. When not reading for One Story, he provides tech support to Literary Agent Irene Skolnick.
James Scott lives, reads, tastes, and writes in Boston. His fiction has appeared in One Story, American Short Fiction, Quick Fiction, Memorious, and flatmancrooked, among other publications, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best New American Voices anthology. James received scholarships to the Sewanee and Wesleyan Writers’ Conferences as well as the New York State Summer Writers’ Institute. He earned his MFA from Emerson College, where he was the fiction editor of Redivider and the recipient of the Presidential Award. He currently teaches fiction workshops at the Grub Street writing center and writes for the magazine Under the Radar, but his real passion is dioramas.
Michael Pollock was born in Maryland, and raised in northern California. He returned to the East Coast for school. Having earned his BA from Sarah Lawrence College, he now lives in Brooklyn.
Cordelia Calvert is a Barnard College Junior about to begin her year abroad. She spends most of her week at One Story and the rest of her time driving down to the shore. Yes, that shore. A native of Montclair, New Jersey, she is an aspiring writer/editor/agent/professor/gallerist/baker. But perhaps she feels obligated to make her debut into the writing world soon because, as someone replying to One Story customer service once said, “you have a good name for this”.
Jennifer Milton is a senior at Connecticut College majoring in English Literature and Music. She has studied fiction writing under Blanche McCrary Boyd at Connecticut College and David Tolley at Oxford University. She’s not sure where she’ll end up after graduating, but she hopes to continue to read for One Story regardless!
Adina Talve-Goodman was born in St. Louis, Missouri. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis she decided to leave the Midwest for Brooklyn. She continues to be delighted by her decision.
Julie Innis hails from Ohio, but now lives in New York. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Gargoyle, Prick of the Spindle, and Pindeldyboz, among others. In 2009, she was a finalist for the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers.
Caitlin Jackson grew up in Littleton, Colorado. She really likes her library card and enjoys reading everything from Bleakhouse to Hellboy. She is a graduate of Connecticut College, where she majored in English Literature and Gender and Women’s Studies. Caitlin also studied English at the University of Edinburgh where her favorite class was ‘The Construction of Crime Fiction.’ She hopes one day to write the perfect mystery heroine, a mix of Miss. Marple, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and David Bowie. It’s going to take a few drafts. Currently, she loves One Story, her ever growing dress collection, and living in New York City.
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