Chelsea Bieker’s fiction and essays have been published in Catapult, The Cincinnati Review, The Normal School, No Tokens, Cosmonauts Avenue, The Elephants, The Collagist, The Portland Review, Portland Monthly, Pregnancy and Newborn Magazine, and others. Her writing has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and the Tin House Writer’s Workshop. She is at work on a novel set in California’s Central Valley, where she is from. Currently she lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and daughter where she teaches writing and works as a professional online dating profile writer.