Dori Ostermiller is the author of Outside the Ordinary World (Mira, 2010) and the founder and director of Writers in Progress, a literary arts center in Northampton, MA. Her stories have appeared in many literary journals, including the Bellingham Review, Bellowing Ark, Alligator Juniper, the MA Review and Chautauqua Literary Review, among others. She has taught writing and literature at the University of Massachusetts, Holyoke Community College, Westfield State College, Springfield College and Bay Path College. She lives and works in Northampton, MA with her husband and two daughters, and is working on a second novel.