Nancy Wayson Dinan is a native Texan who currently lives in San Jose, Costa Rica. The former managing editor of Iron Horse Literary Review, she now teaches at Texas Tech University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Texas Observer, Arts & Letters, Crab Orchard Review, the Cincinnati Review, and others. She earned her MFA from Ohio State University in 2013 and is currently a PhD student in fiction at Texas Tech.