Amy Monticello hails from upstate New York and teaches at Ithaca College. She received her MFA in nonfiction from Ohio State University in 2008.
Her work has been previously published or is forthcoming in The Rambler, Redivider, Upstreet, Waccamaw, Prick of the Spindle, Phoebe, Iron Horse Literary Review and elsewhere. She is also a regular nonfiction contributor at The Nervous Breakdown.---------
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