Nicole Desjardins Gowdy

Originally from Minneapolis, Nicole Desjardins Gowdy now lives in the foothills outside Los Angeles. She studied creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she received a University Book Store Award for Academic Excellence for her senior thesis, a collection of short stories. Her writing has been shortlisted for the WestWord Micro Fiction Prize and has appeared in Black Fox Literary Magazine (issue 25), West Trade Review, MoonPark Review, Literary Mama, and more.