Jody Rae earned her B.A. in Literature - Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz. She was a Pushcart Prize nominee in 2021 and her short story, “Beautiful Mother” was a finalist in the Phoebe Journal 2021 Spring Fiction Contest. Her work appears in MASKS Literary Magazine, Sledgehammer Lit, Flyover Country, The Good Life Review, Red Fez, and pieces forthcoming in Rejection Letters and RESURRECTION magazine. She lives in Colorado.