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Monic Ductan is a Georgia native and a graduate of Georgia State University. She teaches at Tennessee Tech University. Monic’s book, a collection of stories called Daughters of Muscadine, focuses on working-class Black women, estrangement, and family life in rural Georgia. Monic’s writing has appeared in Shenandoah, Oxford American, Southeast Review, South Carolina Review, Appalachian Review, storySouth and several other journals. Her essay “Fantasy Worlds” was listed as notable in Best American Essays (2019). She is at work on a novel about a Gullah girl uncovering police corruption in a small, Southern town.