Kristin Ohlson, a freelance journalist, essayist, and fiction writer, has been published in the New York Times; Salon.com, Ms.; O, The Oprah Magazine; Discover; New Scientist; Food & Wine; Tin House; Poets & Writers; and many other publications. A teacher, she occasionally works with creative writing students at Cleveland State University and women prisoners at Cuyahoga County jail. A recipient of the Ohio Arts Council’s Individual Artists Fellowship in Fiction for 2003-2004, she lives in Cleveland, Ohio.