Cindy Zelman lives near Boston and has published creative work in The Whistling Fire, Feminist Studies, Sinister Wisdom,
and other journals. Her essay, “Stuck in the Middle,” about her battle with panic disorder, will appear in the anthology, It's All in Her Head: Women Making Peace with Troubled Minds, to be published by Seal press in 2013. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from The Solstice MFA program of Pine Manor College. You can find her blog, “The Early Draft,” at www.cindyzelman.wordpress.com.
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