Janet Bland received her Masters in fiction in 1994. Her thesis was titled Rope Trick & Perfect Fit. After Temple, she went on to get her Ph.D. from the University of Denver. Her short story collection A Fish Full of River was published by Ghost Road Press in 2006.  Her story “Ubar: A Reference,” was published in McSweeney’s. She co-wrote the textbook The Civil Mind with Margaret Whitt (Thomson-Wadsworth, 2006). She is an Assistant Professor at Marietta College, where she teaches Creative Writing.