Mesha Maren is a fiction writer from southern West Virginia. Her work has been anthologized in Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial and published in journals such as HOBART, The Barcelona Review, Night Train and The Great Smokies Review. “Muddy Creek” is a part of her novel-in-stories entitled Chokedamp for which she is currently seeking a publisher. You can follow her work online at http://meshamaren.blogspot.com/