Heidi Vornbrock Roosa’s work has appeared in The Normal School, Pear Noir!, and Whistling Shade, among other journals. She completed her MA in fiction at Johns Hopkins University, where she is now adjunct faculty in the MA in writing and MA in teaching writing programs. She also coordinates research in HIV-related dementia for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She lives in Columbia, Maryland.  

Photo by Michael Roosa