Paula Brancato’s literary awards include The Booth Poetry Prize, Danahy Fiction Prize and Brushfire Poet Award. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Mudfish, Bomb Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly, Ambit Magazine, Georgetown Review, Litchfield Review and Southern California Anthology. She has taught at USC and Stony Brook and is a graduate of Hunter College, LA Film School and Harvard Business School. Paula lives in NJ and enjoys science, long workouts, great films and TV series and walking Myrtle the dog.