Nicole VanderLinden’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in New Ohio Review--where Lauren Groff selected her story as the winner of the 2020 NOR Fiction Prize--Shenandoah, SmokeLong Quarterly, Jellyfish Review, Pithead Chapel, and others. She currently serves as associate editor of Colorado Review and as a reader for Ploughshares and the Masters Review, and her book reviews have appeared in various places, including the Denver Post. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa, and is currently working on a short-story collection and finishing her first novel.