Deni Naffziger lives in Athens, Ohio. Her work has appeared in The New Ohio Review, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Spoon River, Pikeville Review. She has work forthcoming in Pudding Magazine and Northern Appalachian Review. Naffziger co-authored Revenants: A Story of Many Lives, awarded an Ohio Arts Council Special Projects grant. Her first full-length collection, Desire to Stay, published by Stockport Flats Press, was nominated for the Weatherford Award.