Jessica Treat is the author of Not a Chance (FC2) and A Robber in the House (Coffee House Press), both story collections.  Her fiction has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including: Ms., Epoch, Black Warrior Review, Quarterly West, American Literary Review, Gargoyle and Double Room. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received the Dominion Review Fiction Award.  A recipient of a Connecticut Commission on the Arts Award, Treat is Associate Professor of English at Northwestern Connecticut Community College.