Brittany Ackerman is from Riverdale, New York. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida Atlantic University’ and teaches Critical Studies at AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Hollywood, CA. She was the 2017 Nonfiction Award Winner for Red Hen Press, as well as the AWP Intro Journals Project Award Nominee in 2015. Her work has been featured in The Los Angeles Review, No Tokens, Hobart, Cosmonauts Ave, Fiction Southeast, and more. Her collection of essays, The Perpetual Motion Machine, is available through Red Hen Press.