Meg Hurtado Bloom is a writer, editor, mother, and amateur mystic from San Francisco. She writes about what happens to women. Her work has recently appeared in miniskirt magazine, SunSpot Lit, ZYZZYVA, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Split Lip Magazine, and others, and she is just now very happy to be part of Maiden’s lovely body of work. She has an MFA in creative writing from St Mary’s College of California.