Elise LeSage is a writer and educator based in North Carolina, where she earned her fiction MFA from UNC Greensboro. She is an alum of the Tin House Summer Workshop, Clarion UCSD, and AWP’s Writer to Writer Program. She is also a recipient of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Undergraduate Writing Awards for fiction and poetry. Her stories have appeared in or are forthcoming in EPOCH, Hypertext Magazine, Pseudopod, and elsewhere. You can find her book reviews and video essays on Instagram at lofiliterary.