Nancy Stohlman is the author of six books including After the Rapture (2023), winner of the Reader Views Silver Award, Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities (2018), The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories (2014), The Monster Opera (2013), Searching for Suzi: a flash novel (2009), and Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction (2020). Her books have been honored in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, The Foreword Indies, The International Book Awards, Reader Views Book Awards and the Colorado Book Awards. Her stories have been anthologized widely, appearing in the Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction and The Best Small Fictions 2019, as well as adapted for both stage and screen. She teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder and holds workshops and retreats around the world.