C.J. Spataro is the director of the M.F.A. in Creative Writing program at Rosemont College. She is also the Editorial Director and Co-publisher of Philadelphia Stories magazine and PS Books. She is a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship winner for fiction. Her short stories can be read in a number of literary journals including Wild River Review, XConnect, The Baltimore Review, Mason’s Road, and 4’ 3” (an online audio journal based in London). Nominated for a Million Writer’s South Award, she also was twice named a finalist in the Mason’s Road contest. Her work was featured three times in the InterAct Theater Company’s “Writing Aloud” series. She has a B.A.A. in Music from Central Michigan University, a Master of Music from Michigan State University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Rosemont College