Padma Prasad is a writer and painter. Her fiction has appeared in Eclectica, The Looseleaf Tea, Reading Hour, ETA Journal, and The Boiler Journal. She blogs her poem drawings at padhma.wordpress.com. Her art is mostly figurative and can be viewed at fineartamerica.com. In her writing, she tries to capture stillness; in her painting, she tries to paint narratives. She lives in Northern Virginia and works as a federal contractor in records management.