Jessica Hendry Nelson is the nonfiction editor at The Fiddleback, an online literary journal, and teaches writing at the State University of New York in Purchase, New York. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Crab Orchard Review, Alligator Juniper, Fringe, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the 2011 John Guyon Literary Prize Competition and recently won first place in Alligator Juniper’s national contest in creative nonfiction. She was also the recipient of the 2005 Richard M. Ford Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Writing.