Enjoy this audio recording of “How we Play with Dolls” by Avital Gad-Cykman from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here.
Avital Gad Cykman was born and raised in Israel, lives in Brazil, and writes in English. She is the winner of Margaret Atwood Studies Magazine Prize and first placed in The Hawthorne Citation Contest. She is a four-time Pushcart prize nominee and a finalist in Iowa Fiction award for story collections.
Her book Life In, Life Out, published by Matter Press, is a flash collection that includes both new micro-fictions and others published in well-known magazines and anthologies such as Prism International, W.W. Norton Flash Fiction International, Salon, and The Los Angeles Review.
Her work has been featured in The Literary Review, Glimmer Train, McSweeney’s Quarterly, Other Voices, Michigan Quarterly Review, Stand Magazine and elsewhere in the USA, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel.