Linda N. Masi - winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, Fine Dreams, a finalist in the Cascade Writing Contest (OCW), longlisted in the YA's Summer First Chapters Contest, a Longleaf Writer's Conference Scholar. Her work has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Blackberry: A Magazine and elsewhere. She is also the author of a play, a book of poems and a children's book series. Originally from Nigeria, Masi holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi and is completing a PhD in English (Creative Writing focus) at Texas Tech University.