C.A. Schaefer makes her home in Salt Lake City with her wife and a small menagerie of cats. She is a writer and editor for the University of Utah’s Division of Occupational & Environmental Health during the day and a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction in the witching hours. Her work has appeared in Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, The Adroit Journal, Triquarterly, Phantom Drift, Passages North, and elsewhere. A former editor of Quarterly West, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah.