Melissa Wiley grew up on a small farm in Indiana and worked as a freelance writer and editor in Chicago. She is the author of Antlers in Space and Other Common Phenomena, and her work has appeared in literary magazines including the American Literary Review, Terrain.org, The Rumpus, Entropy, DIAGRAM, Phoebe, Waxwing, the Offing, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and PANK.