Heather Hasselle is a New Orleans based fiction writer. She is currently an MFA candidate for fiction at Bennington College. She is querying agents for her novel Dirt Don’t Hurt, based on a childhood spent at the dirt track races across the American South, and is at work on a second novel. She teaches writing workshops through The Porch and spent two years as an editorial assistant at American Short Fiction. Heather’s work has been published in Joyland Magazine, The Harvard Advocate, and elsewhere.