Nancy Au's writing appears or is forthcoming in Redivider, Gulf Coast, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Catapult, Lunch Ticket, The Pinch, SmokeLong Quarterly, among others. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University where she taught creative writing. She teaches creative writing (to biology majors!) at California State University Stanislaus, and is co-founder of The Escapery (https://theescapery.org). In 2018 she won The Vestal Review's VERA Flash Fiction Prize, as well as Redivider's Blurred Genre Contest, and her flash fiction was included in the Best Small Fictions anthology. Her full-length collection, Spider Love Song & Other Stories, is forthcoming from Acre Books (University of Cincinnati) in September 2019.