"Belly Of The Beast" by Joy Baglio by Vermont Studio Center published on 2020-05-27T14:36:24Z Joy Baglio‘s short fiction has appeared in Tin House, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, Gulf Coast, New Ohio Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and PANK, among others. She's received fellowships, scholarships, and grants from Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Speculative Literature Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and her writing has been recognized by numerous contests and awards, including The Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest (Honorable Mention) and the Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions. She holds an MFA from The New School and teaches writing at Grub Street and at Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop, which she founded in 2016. She was in residency at VSC during November of 2019, and is currently working on a novel and short story collection. "Belly of the Beast": http://americanshortfiction.org/new/belly-of-the-beast/ First published in American Short Fiction in November 2019 as a Web Exclusive. Interview with Joy and ASF editor Erin McReynolds about the piece and the form of flash fiction: https://americanshortfiction.org/new/web-exclusive-interview-joy-baglio/ Genre Prose