Jackie Davis Martin teaches at City College of San Francisco, a city where she and her husband enjoy the plethora of arts and scenery that California’s Bay Area affords. She has had stories and essays published in both online and prints journals, including Trillium, Midway, Flashquake, Fastforward, JAAM, 34th Parallel, and Sleet.com, Most recent are stories are in Bluestem Magazine and Fractured West.. A novella, Extracurricular, was a finalist in the Press 53 Awards of 2011 She was a featured writer in Curly Red Stories and singled out twice for Southeast Review Writers Regimen Awards. Most recently, she published a memoir, Surviving Susan: A Mother Deals with the Death of Her Daughter and Reflects on Their Relationship.