After a civilian career with Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department, PJ Devlin decided to pursue an MFA in Fiction from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, where she studied with Susan Shreve, Alan Cheuse and Courtney Brkic. Devlin tells stories about relationships. Her characters meet at the intersection of acceptance and rejection and their choices impel them to understand what it means to be human. Whether writing of a witch, a dwarf, an elderly woman, or a black indentured servant, Devlin’s characters exist in the Philadelphia of her birth and share her love of the Wissahickon Creek. PJ’s short stories have been published in print and on-line. “The Witch” may be found in Rose Red Review. “The Decline and Fall” was runner up in Saturday Evening Post 2013 Great American Fiction contest.