Laurie Blauner’s flash fiction has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, The Laurel Review, The Rupture, The Best Small Fictions, and New World Writing among other magazines. Her second hybrid nonfiction book, Swerve, was just released from Rain Mountain Press. A recent novel is available from Spuyten Duyvil Press. Her latest poetry book, Come Closer, won the Library of Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander Press. She lives in Seattle, Washington.