M. Kaat Toy (the pen name of Katherine Toy Miller) has an M.F.A. in creative writing (fiction) from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. in English (creative writing--fiction) from Florida State University. She has published novel excerpts, short stories, flash fiction, prose poems, creative nonfiction, and scholarly essays. Her prose poem chapbook, In a Cosmic Egg, is available at Finishing Line Press. Her flash fiction book, Disturbed Sleep, is forthcoming from FutureCycle Press June 2013. She also writes scholarly narratives on D. H. and Frieda Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, and Georgia O'Keeffe, mutual friends who all lived briefly in Taos, New Mexico, a tricultural community that is her permanent residence.