Celia Laskey has an MFA in fiction from the University of New Mexico. She lives with her wife in Los Angeles, where she writes for ad agencies. Her debut novel, Under the Rainbow, is forthcoming from Riverhead Books in 2019. and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Minnesota Review, Water~Stone Review, Day One, Necessary Fiction, and other magazines. She was also a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers.