Savannah Brooks earned her MFA in creative writing from Hamline University and spent the first decade of her career working in publishing, first as an editor and then as a literary agent, as well as on multiple literary magazines. After contracting a debilitating illness, she left the field to focus on teaching and regularly does so through the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and the Flatiron Writing Room in Asheville. 

Primarily a short-form writer, her short stories have been featured in Prime Number Magazine, New Plains Review, and Inscape; her essays in the Guardian, Hobart, and Barely South Review; and her book reviews in Oyster River Pages, the Hong Kong Review, and Bridge Eight; among other publications (let's just ignore that one poem lingering out there). She's been nominated for a Best of the Net Award (Lime Hawk Magazine), was a runner-up in a horror short story contest (Every Writer's Resource), and is continually putting together at least one short story collection (but these things do tend to run away with her). 

Currently a Big Sister (Big Brothers Big Sisters) and Guardian ad Litem (North Carolina Judiciary Branch), Savannah has volunteered in child welfare, education, and literacy since she was in high school. A disabled writer suffering from the most literal of broken hearts (and stomachs), she lives in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, with her two black cats, Eggs Benedict and Toaster Strudel, and her fifty-plus houseplants (she's clearly coping well).