Ariana D. Den Bleyker is a Pittsburgh native currently residing in a small town in New York where she is a wife and mother of two. When she's not writing, she's spending time with her family and every once in a while sleeps. She is the author of the chapbooks Forgetting Aesop (Bandini Books, LLC, 2011), Naked Animal (Flutter Press, 2012) and My Father Had a Daughter (Alabaster Leaves Publishing, 2013), and the full-length collections The Trees are on Fire (ALL CAPS PUBLISHING, 2012) and Geometry of Broken Parts, forthcoming (Sweatshoppe Publications, 2013). She is the founder and editor of Emerge Literary Journal.