Laurel DiGangi’s fiction and creative nonfiction has been published in The Chicago Reader, Denver Quarterly, Fourth Genre, Asylum, Atlanta Quarterly, Cottonwood, Two Hawks Quarterly, and Under the Gum Tree, among others. A Chicago-born, former graphic designer and illustrator, she now teaches writing and is coordinator of tutoring services at Woodbury University in Burbank, California. Fun fact: During a short stint as an entertainment journalist, she once cracked a joke that made Joel and Ethan Coen laugh.