Nadja Maril is a former magazine editor and journalist living in Annapolis, Maryland. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast Program at the University of Southern Maine and her short stories and essays have been published in dozens of publications including: Change Seven, Lunch Ticket, Thin Air, Lumiere Review Defunkt Magazine and Invisible City. Currently completing a novel and intermittently also working on a memoir, Nadja's published work can be accessed from her website www.Nadjamaril.com. Additional credits include weekly blogposts, two reference books on American Antique Lighting and two children’s books.