Rosalia Scalia is the author of two story collections, Stumbling Toward Grace (Unsolicited Press 2021) and Under the Radar, January 2025. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Medicine and Meaning,  Big Muddy 21, Notre Dame Review, The Oklahoma Review, North Atlantic Review,  The Portland Review, and Quercus Review, among others. She holds an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University. She is a Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist’s Award recipient and won the Gary Wilson Award in Short Fiction from descant liteary mag; the Editor’s Select award from Willow Review, and her short story in Pebble Lake was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives with her family in Baltimore City. http://www.rosaliascalia.com [2].