Mary Burger is a writer, editor, and publisher whose books include Sonny, The Boy Who Could Fly, Thin Straw That I Suck Life Through, Eating Belief, Nature’s Maw Gives and Gives, and Bleeding Optimist. Her work is included in An Anthology of New (American) Poets and Technologies of Measure: A Celebration of Bay Area Women Writers, as well as in numerous small press publications. She is the co-editor of the anthology Biting Error: Writers Explore Narrative, and of Narrativity, an online forum for theoretical narrative. She also edits Second Story Books, which published cross-genre works of innovative narrative.