Bailey Mestayer Pittenger is a writer, teacher, and editor living in Denver, Colorado. She has received scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers Conferences, a Pushcart nomination, and numerous teaching awards. She graduated with her MA in English from Wake Forest University, her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame, and she is currently pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. Her prose, reviews, and poetry can be found in Denver Quarterly, Entropy Magazine, Witch Craft Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of pulpmouth magazine, a biannual journal for art and writing of the in-between. She is an instructor at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. www.baileympittenger.com