Phyllis Brotherton has a long career accounting for things. A late blooming writer, she received her MA in Creative Nonfiction in 2000 from Fresno State University and is currently a 3rd year MFA student there. Her work has appeared in the online journals Pithead Chapel, Spry, and the San Joaquin Review, and is forthcoming in Under the Gum Tree. She is the Interim CEO at the local PBS station and lives with her partner, Denise, in Clovis, California.