Born in San Francisco, and raised just north of the city, Rosaleen Bertolino received an MA in English/Creative Writing from SFSU. Her fiction has most recently appeared in New England Review, Vassar Review, Storyscape, and Superstition Review. Winner of a Marin Arts Council Individual Artist grant and an honorable mention for the James D. Phelan award, she currently lives in Mexico, where she is founder and host of Prose Cafe, a monthly reading series based in San Miguel de Allende. She has just completed a collection of short stories and is at work on another.