Monica Macansantos earned her MFA in Fiction Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. A graduate of the University of the Philippines, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Masters Review, Five Quarterly, TAYO Literary Magazine, and Impact: An Anthology of Short Memoirs, among other places. Her story, “Stopover,” earned an Honorable Mention in the Glimmer Train Fiction Open and was featured in the University of Pittsburgh Writing Program’s Longform Fiction.