Penny Guisinger is the author of the memoir Postcards from Here and the forthcoming memoir Shift. A Maine Literary Award winner and a three-time notable in Best American Essays, she has appeared in the pages of Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Rumpus, Guernica, Solstice Literary Magazine, multiple anthologies, and other places. She is the founding organizer of Iota: Short Prose Conference, and a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Program. She can be found at www.pennyguisinger.com.