Lacy Arnett Mayberry is a writer & reader living in Texas. She won the Boulevard Magazine Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers and was awarded the AWP Kurt Brown Prize for fiction. She has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and her work has appeared in swamp pink, Phoebe Journal, Washington Square Review, The Pinch, Literary Mama, and Ravishly, among other publications. She received an MFA from Lesley University and is working on a novel.