Kristen S. VanNamen is a recipient of the Alfredo Cisneros de Moral award in prose. Currently, she is Managing Editor of Carve Magazine and a 1:1 writing coach, working with both fiction and cnf. Her creative work has been published in Sojourn, Storyglossia, and the Boston Review. This fall while her first novel incubates, she’ll begin work on her second novel.