Lesley Bannatyne received the 2018 Bosque Fiction Prize, the 2019 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award and theghoststory.com 2020 fiction prize. She has published work in The Boston Globe, Smithsonian, Christian Science Monitor, and several literary journals. Her short story collection, Unaccustomed to Grace, came out in 2022 from Kallisto Gaia Press. You can read more at www.iskullhalloween.com.