Lita A. Kurth (MFA Rainier Writers Workshop) has published essays, poems, and short stories in Tikkun, NewVerseNews, Blast Furnace, eliipsis…literature and art, the Santa Clara Review, the Exploratorium Quarterly, Tattoo Highway, Vermont Literary Review, and others. An excerpt of her novel appeared as a story, “Marius Martin, Proletarian,” in On the Clock: Contemporary Short Stories of Work (Bottom Dog Press). Her nonfiction, “Pivot,” which appears in the 2012 University of Nebraska anthology, Becoming:What Makes a Woman, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work “Lifetime TV Movie” was a finalist for the 2012 [email protected] contest. She regularly contributes to Tikkun.org/tikkundaily, TheReviewReview.net, and classism.org.