C.J. Dotson is a Northeast Ohio native who no longer lives in the rustbelt—these days C.J. and her family live in upstate New York, in a house with too many shadowsand inexplicable noises. Her short fiction can be found in publications such as Upon a Once Time from Air and Nothingness Press, 99 Tiny Terrors from Pulse Publishing, and more. She studied English with a creative writing focus at Cleveland State University.