Stephanie Laterza is the recipient of a SU-CASA 2018 artist-in-residence award from the Brooklyn Arts Council. Her poetry has been featured in L’Éphémère Review, Ovunque Siamo, A Gathering of the Tribes, Newtown Literary, Literary Mama, San Francisco Peace and Hope, Meniscus Magazine, and is forthcoming in First Literary Review-East. Her short fiction has been published in The Nottingham Review, Writing Raw, Akashic Books, Literary Mama, and Obra/Artifact. She holds a B.A. in English from Fordham College at Lincoln Center and a J.D. from New England Law School, where a course in Law and Literature brought her full circle to her love of writing. For many years, she’s worked as a contract attorney, which has paralleled her literary career. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and son.