Stephanie Macias is a Latinx writer, artist, and musician living in Austin, TX. She received an MFA in fiction from the University of Texas and has received support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Vermont Studio Center. Her stories have been long-listed, short-listed, and finalists for multiple prizes and nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize four times. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in The Georgia Review, Epiphany, Fractured Lit, Portland Review, StoryQuarterly, Brink, No Tokens, Southern Humanities Review, and more. From 2011 to 2018 she performed under the name Little Brave. Between the years of 2003 and 2016, she made her living as a touring singer-songwriter, an illustrator, a photographer, and a painter. She is the managing editor at American Short Fiction and is currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories.

"Little Brave's music exhibits some form of intensity that you don't hear all over the place... It's intense because it's so individual. It's so personal and it really seems to be coming from a place that people just don't let other people see all that often. It's emotional. It's naked... It's calling for blood...." - Daytrotter.com