The stories and poetry of Julie Esther Fisher have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Waxwing, Radar Poetry, The Citron Review, Prime Number Magazine, Tahoma Literary Review, On the Seawall, Sky Island Journal, Litmosphere, Leon Literary Review, Passager’s 2025 Contest Issue, and many other publications. Her work has received numerous honours, including the Grand Prize in the Stories That Need to Be Told Anthology, Sheila-Na-Gig’s Editor’s Choice Award in Poetry, and Sunspot Lit’s Rigel Award. She has also been shortlisted for numerous literary prizes and received multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. She holds degrees in fiction writing and counselling psychology. Julie lives with her classical musician husband and their two rescue dogs on several hundred acres of conserved land in Hawley, Massachusetts. There she writes, designs gardens, and lives among the changing seasons, the quiet persistence of the natural world, and the hidden stories waiting to be discovered within it.

The stories and poetry of Julie Esther Fisher have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Waxwing, Radar Poetry, The Citron Review, Prime Number Magazine, Tahoma Literary Review, On the Seawall, Sky Island Journal, Litmosphere, Leon Literary Review, Passager’s 2025 Contest Issue, and many other publications. Her work has received numerous honours, including the Grand Prize in the Stories That Need to Be Told Anthology, Sheila-Na-Gig’s Editor’s Choice Award in Poetry, and Sunspot Lit’s Rigel Award. She has also been shortlisted for numerous literary prizes and received multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. She holds degrees in fiction writing and counselling psychology. Julie lives with her classical musician husband and their two rescue dogs on several hundred acres of conserved land in Hawley, Massachusetts. There she writes, designs gardens, and lives among the changing seasons, the quiet persistence of the natural world, and the hidden stories waiting to be discovered within it.

Patricia Stacey is an award-winning writer who has published in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan and various journals.  She is author of The Boy Who Loved Windows (Da Capo Press.)