Maria Mutch is the author of the memoir/anti-memoir, KNOW THE NIGHT, published by Simon & Schuster and Knopf Canada, and which was a finalist for the Governor General Literary Awards 2014 and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Poets & Writers, Guernica, Southeast Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, the Ocean State Review, Fiction Writers Review, Necessary Fiction, the Women’s Review of Books blog, Bayou Magazine, and Literary Mama, among others. She lives in Rhode Island.