Katherine Zlabek received her M.F.A. from Western Michigan University, where she won awards for both fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Madison Review, Artful Dodge, Bellevue Literary Review, Oxford Magazine, TINGE, The Dos Passos Review and The Flying House Anthology, among others. In 2012, she won the AWP Intro Journals Award. Her collection of stories LET THE RIVERS CLAP THEIR HANDS was a finalist for both the Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award and the Iowa Short Fiction Contest this year. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati.