Gretchen Schrafft’s fiction, reportage, and reviews have appeared in Carve, Joyland, Hobart, the Rumpus, the Huffington Post, San Francisco magazine, and elsewhere. She’s a graduate of Middlebury College, and began reading for NER as an intern in 2007. She holds an MFA from Oregon State University and is currently a doctoral student in creative writing at the University of Denver. She’s working on a short story collection and a novel.