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Tamar Perla Cantwell's fiction has appeared in journals and anthologies including The Ilanot Review, The North American Review, Ascent, Monologues from the Road, ed. Lavonne Mueller, and Secrets, ed. Linny Stovall. Her nonfiction essay, "Transmissions and Transgres-sions of the Holy," was a finalist in the New Letters Literary Awards. Tamar was a writer-in-residence at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California. She received her BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was lucky to take a po-etry class with Ishmael Reed; she received her MA in creative writing at San Francisco State University, where she studied with Molly Giles. Tamar taught composition for ten years in San Diego, California, and currently, she is the assistant director of the Academic Resource Center at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.