Chelsie Bryant is an Ohio native living in Portland, Maine. She received her MFA from Ohio State and MA from the University of Cincinnati. Her work has been featured in Michigan Quarterly Review, Passages North, The Carolina Quarterly, Willow Springs, Yemassee, Hobart, and in other places. She is the recipient of the Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award and the Willow Springs Fiction Prize, among others. Recently, her short story collection was long-listed for the Dzanc Books Short Story Prize.