Joanne Ser­ling’s fic­tion has been nom­i­nat­ed for a Push­cart Prize and has appeared in New Ohio Review and North Amer­i­can Review. She is a grad­u­ate of Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty and stud­ied and taught fic­tion at The Writ­ers Stu­dio in New York City. She lives out­side of New York with her hus­band and chil­dren and is at work on her sec­ond book.