Janet Buttenwieser’s work has appeared in Under the Sun, Potomac Review, The Pinch, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. She’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, was a finalist for Oregon Quarterly’s Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest, and won honorable mention in the Atlantic Student Writing contest, the New Millennium Writings Award and the Artsmith Literary Award. She has an MFA from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. Visit her online at janetbuttenwieser.com/.