Jodie Noel Vinson received her MFA in nonfiction creative writing from Emerson College, where she developed a book about her travels to literary sites around the world. Her essays and reviews have been published in Creative Nonfiction, The Gettysburg Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Rumpus, Nowhere Magazine, The Kenyon Review, Pleiades, SAND, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other places. Jodie lives with her husband in Seattle, where she is writing a book about insomnia.