Sandra Maddux-Creech earned her BA at Antioch University in Ohio and her MFA at Colorado State University. Her work has appeared in Margin and Ballyhoo Stories and is soon to appear in SmokeLong Quarterly. She has recently been a finalist in contests sponsored by Glimmer Train and Many Mountains Moving, and her story, “Ceremony,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2004. She has completed her first novel and is writing her second.