Kristen Eliason recently received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame, where she is currently a writer in residence as the 2008-09 Nicholas Sparks Prize recipient. On the side she freelances for an advertising agency in her native Salt Lake City, Utah. Her work is forthcoming from Diagram and Two Review, and can be found in Reed Magazine, Juked, brownpaper, The Bend, Liquid Magazine, and Inscape.