Jane Ciabattari is the author of Stealing the Fire (Dzanc Books 2013). Her short stories have been honored with three Pushcart Prize special mentions and an Editor’s Choice award from Hampton Shorts. Her new collection in progress was shortlisted for the 2018 Dzanc Short Story Collection Award. She is a columnist for BBC Culture and The Literary Hub, a former president of the National Book Critics Circle, on the advisory board of The Story Prize, a Pushcart Prize contributing editor, and has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has served as visiting faculty/life in letters lecturer at Bennington’s MFA program, Distinguished Writer in Residence at Knox College, writer in residence at Chautauqua, and at multiple writers’ conferences. She first attended the Community of Writers as a graduate student on fellowship. http://www.janeciabattari.com/