About the Author

Sybil Baker received her MFA in creative writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of TALISMANS (C&R Press, 2010) and The Life Plan (Casperian Books, 2009). Her short stories and essays have appeared in Transnational Literature, upstreet, The Writer's Chronicle, and elsewhere. She is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.