Leah Griesmann was a 2010-2011 Steinbeck Fellow in Fiction at San Jose State University. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cortland Review, Fourteen Hills, Paradigm Volume 3: The Best of Ficiton, Nonfiction, and Poetry 2009, Lady Jane's Miscellany, The UK's Litro Magazine, J Journal: New Writing on Justice, and Union Station. She is currently a lecturer in writing at San Jose State University.