Kristian Macaron (she/her), resides in Albuquerque, NM, a land full of treasures. Her writing is inspired by this colorful landscape and explores tales that derive from connections to her Hispanic/Lebanese-American heritage, but also her love for monsters, portals, geology, and time travel. Kristian received an MFA in Creative Writing Fiction from Emerson College (2012) and a BA from University of New Mexico (2010). Her poetry chapbook Storm, released in 2015 from Swimming with Elephants Publications. Other prose and poetry publications can be found in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, The Night Heron Barks, The Mantle Poetry, Uncanny Magazine, Luna Luna Magazine, Solstice Literary Magazine, Rust + Moth, Gargoyle Magazine, and others. She is a co-founding editor of the literary journal, Manzano Mountain Review, a board member for Theater-in-the-Making and teaches writing at University of New Mexico-Valencia. View her work and updates at Kristianmacaron.com IG: @maps_with_monsters Twitter: @kristianmacaron