Paula Brancato was the 2015 winner of Tampa Review’s Danahy Fiction Prize and Booth’s 2015 Poetry Prize, and Second Prize winner in Cutthroat’s 2019 Rick DeMarinis Story Contest. Her work has also appeared in The Interpreter’s House, Ambit, Kenyon Review, Mudfish, GSU Review, Georgetown Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Slipstream, Barrow Street, and Common Ground Review. Brancato’s chapbook, Dar a Luz was selected by Ilya Kaminsky for pacificReview’s 2007 Brushfire Award. Her chapbooks, Painting Cities and For My Father were published by Finishing Line Press. Brancato grew up in Queens NY, escaped early on, earned her MBA at Harvard Business School and is a graduate of Hunter College and Los Angeles Film School. She has been a music industry CFO and Wall Street executive.