Alyssa Witbeck holds an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Montana where she was an editor for CutBank. She is published in Fiction Attic Press, Miracle Monocle, Rupture, Chestnut Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and won the Original Utah Writing Competition. Based in Utah, she teaches university English composition courses. She crochets an unsustainable number of stuffed animals, for no real reason.