KATHIE GIORGIO’S short story collection, “Enlarged Hearts,” is due to be released in early 2012 by the Main Street Rag Publishing Company. Her first novel, “The Home For Wayward Clocks,” was released on February 1, 2011, by the Main Street Rag Publishing Company as well. Her short stories have appeared in Los Angeles Review, Harpur Palate, Fiction International, Dos Passos Review, Ars Medica, Thema, CutThroat, The Pedestal, St. Petersburg Review, Lowescroft Chronicle, Lalitamba, Riverrun Review, Alimentum, Evening Street Review, Frontstem, Bayou, Epiphany, Eclipse, Potomac Review, Arabesques Review, Hurricane Review, Oyez Review, Jabberwock Review, Karamu Review, Reed Magazine, The Binnacle, Licking River Review, Bellowing Ark, Hiss Quarterly, Midway Journal, The Externalist, Fogged Clarity, and many more. She’s been anthologized by Papier Mache Press, Main Street Rag Publishing Company, EBibliotekos, Pill Hill Press and Susurrus Press. Her poem, “In Retrospect,” appears now in Fearless Books’ newest anthology on love and touch and she has appeared in the Wisconsin Poets Calendar. She has been the featured author in Women Writers’ ezine. She’s been nominated twice for the Million Writer Award and for the Best of the Net anthology. Interviews with Kathie have appeared on NPR, in Poets & Writers magazine, and in several literary magazines. She is the director and founder of AllWriters’ Workplace & Workshop, a creative writing studio. She also teaches for Writers’ Digest and serves on their advisory board.