Christina Clancy is the author of Shoulder Season and The Second Home. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times "Modern Love" column, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Sun Magazine, and in literary journals like Glimmer Train Stories, Hobart, Pleiades, The Minnesota Review and on Wisconsin Public Radio. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and formerly taught English at Beloit College.

Born in Denver and raised in Milwaukee, she currently lives with her very tall husband and very small dog in Madison, Wisconsin, and in Palm Springs, California.

You can find out more on her website, http://www.christiclancywrites.com