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CreateHere in 2008. She has a master's degree in clinical
psychology and is a certified professional life coach. Her
memoir, The Body Tourist, is forthcoming from Little Feather
Books.
Sarah Shotland is the author of the novel JUNKETTE (White
Gorilla Press 2014), and the co-editor of the forthcoming literary
anthology WORDS WITHOUT WALLS: WRITERS ON
ADDICTION, VIOLENCE & INCARCERATION (Trinity
University Press 2015). She is Co-Founder and Program
Coordinator of Words Without Walls, which brings creative
writing classes to jails, prisons and rehabilitation centers in
Pittsburgh, PA. She teaches in the MFA program at Chatham
University and is Fiction Editor of Weave Magazine. You can
visit her at www.sarahshotland.com.
Patty Somlo has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three
times, was a finalist in the Tom Howard Short Story Contest, and
has been nominated for the 2013 storySouth’s Million Writers
Award. She is the author of From Here to There and Other Stories.
Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including the Los
Angeles Review, the Santa Clara Review, and WomenArts
Quarterly, among others, and in twelve anthologies,
including Solace in So Many Words, which won the Next
Generation Indie Book Award for Anthology.
Alaina Symanovich is a graduate student pursuing her MA in
creative writing from Penn State University. Her work has
appeared or is forthcoming in Word Riot, Fogged Clarity, Skin to
Skin, the Stone Highway Review, and other journals.
Erika Dusen Tamindzija discovered the joy of writing in the
fourth grade. It wasn’t until college that she also discovered the
pain of writing. She has had her work published in the literary
magazines Kalliope and SN Review. Her education includes a BA