Boulevard Emerging Writers Short Fiction Contest Winner

Anastasi Selby’s story was selected as the winning entry for the 2016 Boulevard Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers. “Certain Fires” appears in the fall issue (#97). The story focuses “on fighting wildfires in California and the sexual tensions of mixed-gender crews.” Selby worked as a firefighter on three hotshot crews for the USFS in California and Colorado as well as a helicopter crew member for the Park Service in Alaska. She began her fire career in 1999, in Eugene, Oregon, and ended it in 2010, in Fairbanks, Alaska. (From jaselby.com)