Katie Cortese

Katie Cortese is the author of the flash fiction collection, Girl Power and Other Short-Short Stories (ELJ Publications, 2015). Her stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Blackbird, Gulf Coast, Sport Literate, and the Baltimore Review, as well as the Rose Metal Press anthology, Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres. She holds a PhD from Florida State University and an MFA from Arizona State University, received a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to attend the 2012 Sewanee Writers' Conference, and was granted a residency at the Arte Studio Ginestrelle near Assisi, Italy, in 2014. The former editor in chief of the Southeast Review, she now serves as the fiction editor for Iron Horse Literary Review. She lives in Lubbock, Texas, where she teaches in the Creative Writing program at Texas Tech University and is currently at work on a novel. Visit her at www.katiecortese.com.