The recipient of fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center, Monica Hileman has published over a dozen short stories in journals such as The Baffler, the Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row Journal, Arts & Letters, and Catamaran Literary Reader. Her book reviews have also appeared in the Arts Fuse, a local online magazine. A few years ago, one of her novellas was first runner up for the Miami University Press Novella Prize. Originally from the Chicago area, she currently lives just north of Boston.