Carissa Halston is the author of A Girl Named Charlie Lester and The Mere Weight of Words (forthcoming in 2012 from Aqueous Books). She has received grants for her long-form fiction from the Wesleyan Writers Conference and the University of Massachusetts Boston. 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 edits a literary journal called apt and hosts a reading series called Literary Firsts.

She does not generally wear makeup.

Contact: carissa AT aforementionedproductions DOT com