Jen Michalski is the author of THE SUMMER SHE WAS UNDER WATER (Black Lawrence Press, 2018) and THE TIDE KING (Black Lawrence Press, 2013, winner of the Big Moose Prize), as well as two collections of fiction, Close Encounters (So New, 2007), and FROM HERE (Aqueous Books, 2013) and a collection of novellas, Could You Be With Her Now (Dzanc Books, 2013). In 2013, she was named one of 50 Women to Watch by The Baltimore Sun and won a Best of Baltimore for Best Writer from Baltimore Magazine. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the founding editor of the literary journal, jmww, and host of the monthly fiction reading series, Starts Here!