Jennifer Pullen grew up in Washington State. She got her BA from Whitworth University, her MFA from Eastern Washington University, and her PhD from Ohio University. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Ohio Northern University. Her fiction and poetry have been published in various journals and anthologies including: Going Down Swinging (AU), Cleaver, Phantom Drift Limited, Clockhouse, Prick of the Spindle, Defenestration, Blink Ink, Gravel, Off the Coast, Corvid Queen, F(r)iction, Psychopomp, Assay, and Behind the Mask (Meerkat Press), among others.