Angela Pelster is the author of Limber (Sarabande Books, 2014). Her essays have appeared in Granta, The Gettysburg Review, Seneca Review, The Globe and Mail, Relief Magazine, and others. Her children’s novel The Curious Adventures of India Sophia won the Golden Eagle Children’s Choice award in 2006. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and lives with her family in Baltimore where teaches at Towson University.