Jamie Quatro is an MFA candidate in fiction in the Bennington College Writing Seminars, where she has been privileged to work with writers Jill McCorkle, Amy Hempel, David Gates, Sheila Kohler, and Douglas Bauer. She is currently completing a collection of connected stories set in Lookout Mountain, one of which (“Up 58 South”) was named a finalist in the Fall 2007 New Writers Awards Competition at Glimmer Train. Her stories have also appeared in Gallery of Writing and Kalliope. She holds an MA in English from the College of William and Mary, and has completed doctoral studies in English at Princeton University. Ms. Quatro enjoys running, playing classical piano, and reading Dickens aloud to unsuspecting passersby. She lives in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, with her husband, four children, dog, three cats, and one extremely wary gerbil.

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