Colleen Rothman is a writer from south Louisiana who lives in New Orleans. Her short fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming from Ecotone, Quarterly West, and Maudlin House, among others, and was longlisted for the Jesmyn Ward Prize. Her work in other genres has been published in The Atlantic, Literary Hub, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Adroit Journal, ANTIGRAVITY, and elsewhere. An alumna of Carleton College and Northwestern University’s Medill School, she has attended the Tin House Summer Workshop, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference, where she was a Tennessee Williams Scholar. Colleen is the founding editor of Nurture: A Literary Journal and is an associate series editor for the Wigleaf Top 50.