Amy Penne earned her PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is Professor of Humanities at Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois. Amy’s work has appeared in the I-70 Review, Tupelo Quarterly (online review), Creative Nonfiction/In Fact books’ anthology, “Oh Baby!”, Minerva Rising, Change Seven, Embodied Effigies, Mouth, Fear of Monkeys, KYSO Flash, and on the Drunken Odyssey podcast. Links to her work and more information is available at www.thepensivepenne.com.