Emma Bolden is a writer, teacher, amateur container gardener, and cat wrangler. Her work can be found in MARGIE , Verse, Green Mountains Review, Poet Lore, Cimarron Review, 32 Poems, Spoon River Poetry Review, Salamander, and other literary journals. Her short story, “Sympathy,” was selected as the winner of the 2007 Georgetown Review prize, and her one-act, Drinks, was selected as the winner of the American Theatre Co-Op’s Winter 2004 Contest for Original One-Act Plays. She is the author of How To Recognize A Lady, soon to be published as part of Edge by Edge, the third in Toadlily Press Quartet Series.