Ashley Kunsa is associate professor of creative writing at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, MT. She holds a PhD in English literature from Duquesne University and an MFA in fiction writing from Penn State. Her recent poetry appears in Bennington Review, Massachusetts Review, Barrow Street, and Southern Humanities Review, and her fiction and nonfiction have been published in the Los Angeles Review, The Writer magazine, The Forge, Sycamore Review, and many other venues. Originally from Pittsburgh, she lives in Billings with her husband and two children.