DC Restaino is a writer and editor living in London, UK, and the associate fiction editor at the Maine Review. His writing has appeared online and in print at Michigan Quarterly Review, Funicular Magazine, Horizon Magazine, Outcrop Poetry, Thread Magazine, Mulberry Lit, Full House Lit, and elsewhere. He was runner-up in the Dillydoun Review flash fiction contest, quarter-finalist in the Driftwood Press short story contest, shortlisted for the Fractured Lit OPEN Flash Fiction Contest, longlisted for the SmokeLong Quarterly Grand Micro Prize, and a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. He was a 2024/2025 emerging writing fellow at the London Library, and is a current PhD candidate at King’s College London with funding from London Arts and Humanities Partnership.
