Carissa Halston is the author of A Girl Named Charlie Lester and The Mere Weight of Words. She has received scholarships for her long-form fiction from the Wesleyan Writers Conference and University of Massachusetts Boston, and her debut novel was honorably mentioned in the New York Book Festival. Carissa’s short fiction has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Precipitate, TRNSFR, > kill author, and The Collagist, among others. She currently lives in Boston where she runs a small press called Aforementioned Productions, edits a literary journal called apt, hosts a reading series called Literary Firsts, and is at work on a novel called Conjoined States.

Contact: carissa AT aforementionedproductions DOT com