CHRISTY BAILES lives in Fairfield, California.  She is pursuing a second master’s degree in creative writing from California State University, Sacramento.  Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gyroscope Review, Dovecote Magazine, Panoplyzine, Calaveras Station Literary Journal, The Penmen Review, and Inkwell Journal.  In 2016, she received a master’s degree in creative writing from Southern New Hampshire University, where she studied with Patrick Culliton.  She has also studied poetry with Lynne Knightand won an honorable mention twice in the Mattia International Poetry Contest.  In 1993, she obtained a bachelor’s degree from Eastman School of Music in clarinet performance. Read more →