Virginia Hartman is the author of The Marsh Queen, which debuted September 2022 from Gallery/Simon & Schuster with great praise. Her work has been published in the Hudson Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Potomac Review, Delmarva Review, Redux, Washingtonian, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Common Ground Review, and other magazines and anthologies, including Gravity Dancers: Even More Fiction by Washington Area Women (Paycock Press). Her stories have been shortlisted for the New Letters Prize and the Dana Awards. Her writing has been supported by both the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She holds an MFA in creative writing from American University and is on the Creative Writing faculty at George Washington University. She also teaches fiction writing at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Along with Barbara Esstman, she co-edited an anthology, A More Perfect Union: Poems and Stories about the Modern Wedding (St. Martin’s Press).