Sara Reish Desmond grew up in rural Pennsylvania and graduated from Kenyon College with a BA in English. After many years of working as a high school English teacher in urban Los Angeles and Boston, she earned her MFA in Fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her short fiction has been published in Front Porch, The Los Angeles Review, the Kenyon Review, Waterstone Review and elsewhere. Her stories have been finalists for The Rick DeMarinis Award in Short Fiction (from Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts) and The Copper Nickel Award in Short Fiction (from University of Colorado). Her short story collection, entitled, “What We Might Become,” is centered on the idea of liminality and threshold experiences. She lives and writes just north of Boston with her husband and two daughters and teaches Creative Writing regularly. Learn more about her here: www.sarareishdesmond.com [2]