Virginia Hartman has published work in the Hudson Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Liars League NYC, Potomac Review, Delmarva Review and the Washingtonian. Her work has been anthologized in Gravity Dancers: Even More Fiction by Washington Area Women (Paycock Press), and, with Barbara Esstman, she co-edited a literary anthology called A More Perfect Union: Poems and Stories about the Modern Wedding (St. Martin’s Press). Her writing has been supported by the Sewanee Writer’s Conference and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and her stories have been shortlisted for the New Letters prize, the Tennessee Williams Festival Prize, and the Dana Awards. She is on the creative writing faculty at George Washington University and has taught at American University, where she received her MFA. She also teaches at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, and facilitates a weekly poetry group at Miriam’s Kitchen in DC. Her website: http://virginiahartman.com/