Amy Ratto Parks’ poetry, fiction, and essays appear in literary, popular, and academic journals. She has worked as a reporter, a freelance writer and online writing course designer, and an editor of Writer’s Digest, Fiction Writer, and Cutbank literary magazines. A graduate of Miami University and the University of Montana, she is currently an Associate Director of the University of Montana’s Writing & Public Speaking Center and the Executive Director of the Institute of Health and Humanities.