Jennifer Pashley's stories have appeared widely in journals such as Mississippi Review, Salt Hill, Stone Canoe, and New World Writing. She has won the Red Hen Prize for fiction, the Mississippi Review Prize for fiction, and the Carve Magazine Esoteric Award for LGBT fiction. Her first collection, States (Lewis-Clark Press/Sandhills Press, 2007), was hailed by Aimee Bender as "an inviting and well-carved debut." A graduate of LeMoyne College and Binghamton University, she has taught writing at Syracuse University and at the Syracuse YMCA's Downtown Writer's Center. She lives with her family in