Wednesday Trash Day Available for Purchase!

The Florida Review is happy to announce our winner for the 2025 Jeanne Leiby Chapbook Award, Wednesday Trash Day by Mary Kate Coleman is available for purchase here!

Mary Kate Coleman is a recent Fulbright scholar and investigator on the digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation. She’s currently a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cimarron, Glimmer Train, Redivider, Carve Magazine, and others. Her story “HayDay” was a finalist in the 2025 Puerto Del Sol Prose Contest. She and her husband are working on renovating an 1830s log cabin on the White River in Indianapolis. They have two kids, Ruthie and Woody.