Jennifer Maritza McCauley is a writer, teacher and editor. She received her PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Missouri, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, CantoMundo, Kimbilio, and Sundress Academy. Her most recent work appears in Columbia Journal, Los Angeles Review, Breakbeat Poets: LatiNEXT, and elsewhere. She is presently fiction editor at Pleiades. Her cross-genre collection SCAR ON/SCAR OFF is available from Stalking Horse Press.