Norma DaCrema is a high-school teacher at an independent girls' school in Pennsylvania. A recent graduate of Arcadia's low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing, she has published or has work forthcoming in The Lyric, Red Eft Review, The Night Heron Barks, Wingless Dreamer, The Closed Eye Open and Red Fern Review. She lives in Rosemont with her son, four indoor cats, and a fifth, Bad Randy, keeping watch out back.