About 

Staci Mercado won a Midwest Book Award for her historical fiction novel, Seeking Signs (Four Feathers Press, 2013). She has published work in Hippocampus, Broad Street, Barely South Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, Fiction Southeast, Canary, and Litro. Staci is a professor for Southern New Hampshire University's MFA in Creative Writing program. She also teaches writing for Eastern Iowa Community Colleges and Central DeWitt High School. Staci was awarded the 2017 Outstanding Literary Arts Educator Award from the Midwest Writing Center and was a top-five finalist for The Iowa Department of Education's Iowa Teacher of the Year in 2022.