MaryEllen Beveridge received an MFA with honors from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her short stories have appeared in Louisiana Literature, The Carolina Quarterly, War, Literature & the Arts, Notre Dame Review, Cottonwood, Pembroke Magazine, The Normal School, Owen Wister Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Ascent, Limestone, Crab Orchard Review, The Lindenwood Review, 13^th Moon, Eclipse, The South Carolina Review, Other Voices, Emrys Journal, New Orleans Review, the new renaissance, and The Georgia Review.  She is a two-time nominee for a Pushcart Prize and recipient of a Finalist Award in Fiction from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. A previous short story collection was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and another was a semi-finalist for the Iowa Short Fiction Award. She is a former member of the faculty at Emerson College, where she taught fiction writing and literature.