Joanna Petrone is a writer and school teacher. Her short stories have appeared in The Los Angeles Review and The Bellingham Review, and her nonfiction writing has appeared in Romper, Slate, Vice, Avidly, and Longreads, among other publications. She has a B.A. in English from Stanford University and an M.A. in English Education from the University of California, Berkeley. Joanna lives in the Bay Area with her family and returns to her hometown of New York City as often as she can.