Carissa Halston is the author of A Girl Named Charlie Lester and The Mere Weight of Words (forthcoming in 2012 from Aqueous Books). Her debut novel was honorably mentioned in the 2008 New York Book Festival and lauded as “emotionally generous” and “a lovely piece of female confessional” by Kirkus Reviews. Carissa’s short fiction has recently appeared or is forthcoming in kill author, Little Fiction, Untoward, Precipitate, and Consequence, among others. She currently lives in Boston where she edits apt and hosts Literary Firsts.

She does not generally wear makeup.

Contact: carissa AT aforementionedproductions DOT com