Thea Prieto’s writing has appeared in print or online at Poets & Writers, Entropy, Yalobusha Review, The Masters Review, pacificREVIEW, and The Grief Diaries, among other journals. She was also a finalist for Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers, and her novel-in-progress From the Bluffs was a semifinalist in the William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. She has edited for Counterpoint Press, Berkeley Fiction Review, and Portland Review, and she currently writes and edits for Propeller Magazine, The Gravity of the Thing, and Oregon Music News. She teaches creative writing and publishing at Portland State University where she earned her MFA in creative writing.