Jenny Alton is an MFA fiction candidate at SFSU and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Ukraine 2011-2013). A former Curator at VelRo Readings, Graduate Teaching Associate at SFSU, and Assistant Fiction Editor at Fourteen Hills, her writing has appeared in Lumen, Entropy, and Vertebrae, was a semi-finalist in Conium Review’s Innovative Short Fiction contest, and has twice been a finalist in Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers. She rides bikes, dirties dishes, is an amateur printmaker and in constant pursuit of the of the perfect all-butter pie crust.