This blog is maintained by Rochelle Hurt, a writer currently living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Rochelle was forged from iron ore in the steel mills of Youngstown, Ohio. She has since studied English literature at the Ohio State University, as well as studied and taught creative writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she received her MFA in 2011. During the summer of 2011, she was a Writer-in-Residence at the Jentel Artist Residency Progam in Wyoming. She has been awarded prizes from several literary journals, including Arts & Letters, Hunger Mountain, and SDSU’s Poetry International.

To find Rochelle’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in recent and upcoming issues of literary journals, click here.

To read samples of Rochelle’s work, click here.