Rita Kasperek's short fiction has won a number of short story contests and appeared in The Portland Review, Storyglossia, Word Riot, Terrain, Yankee Pot Roast, The Georgia Review, The Sand Hill Review, River Styx, Big Ugly Review, New York Stories, and other publications. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona and studied at the Community of Writers and Summer Literary Seminars. She has two novels in the works.