Ericka Lutz is the author of eight books including the novel The Edge of Maybe, which the SF Chronicle called “an unconventional family drama and sexy satire.” Her short fiction and essays have been published in Literary Mama, Verve, The Slate, Green Mountains Review, Scrivener Creative Review, Sideshow, and many others. Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Global Poemic, Survival Lit, and The Racket Journal. Ericka was a two-time Fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and winner of the Boston Fiction Festival. An escapee to the woods, she lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills where she raises chickens and works as a Book Mentor: erickalutz.com.