Zoë Ballering’s (she/her) debut collection of stories, There Is Only Us, was selected as the winner of the 2022 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction and published by the University of North Texas Press. Her short stories are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review and Story Magazine and have appeared in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Hobart, and Craft. Zoë holds an MFA in creative writing from Western Washington University and currently works as a Senior Assistant Dean of Admission Communications at Reed College.