Jodi Paloni is the author of the linked story collection, They Could Live with Themselves, runner-up for the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, a finalist for the Maine Book Award, and an Indie Publishers Award Silver Medalist. Her fiction appears in Berkeley Fiction, Green Mountains Review, Whitefish Review, Cleaver, Carve, and many other places. Her work has been anthologized in North by Northeast I and II, as well as Short Story America Anthology IV. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives on the coast of Maine, where she is the founder and lead facilitator of Maine Coast Writers.