Samantha Eliot Stier, MFA, recently graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles, and has had her work published in several literary journals. A selection of her stories was featured in the New Short Fiction Series, LA’s longest running spoken word series, and one of her short stories won an honorable mention in the Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards. This fall she will travel to Guadalajara, Spain, to teach English at an elementary school.