Lori Jakiela is the author of the memoir, Miss New York Has Everything (Warner/Hatchette, 2006), and a poetry collection - Spot the Terrorist!(Turning Point, 2012). Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and more. She is a recipient of the City of Asylum-Pittsburgh Prize, a Golden Quill Award from the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize many times. She teaches in the writing programs at The University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg and Chatham University, and lives outside of Pittsburgh with her husband, the writer Dave Newman, and their children. Her third memoir - Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe - will be published by Atticus Books in Summer 2015. For more, visit http: //lorijakiela.net