Sarah Heston received her MFA in poetry from UC Irvine in 2003 and has since published chapters of her current project, a memoir, in Hotel Amerika and American Literary Review. She is also the recipient of the 2009 Eda Kriseova Fellowship in creative nonfiction from the Prague Summer Program and the Mizzou CWP 2011 Nonfiction Award. She is completing a Ph.D. in nonfiction at the University of Missouri.