Joy Baglio is a speculative-literary fiction writer and proud Leo living in Northampton, MA. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, New Ohio Review, The Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. Joy is the recipient of scholarships, fellowships, residencies, and grants from The Speculative Literature Foundation, Yaddo, The Elizabeth George Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and The Kerouac Project, where she’ll be an upcoming writer-in-residence in Jack Kerouac’s Orlando house. She holds an MFA from The New School and is the founder of the (now virtual) Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop, a literary arts organization supporting writers through workshops and community literary events. She is at work on a collection of short stories and two novels. Visit her online at www.JoyBaglio.com and on Twitter at @JoyBaglio.