Donna Miscolta, a resident of Seattle, Washington, won the 2008 Bread Loaf/Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholarship in Fiction and has received writing awards locally from Artist Trust, 4 Culture, and Seattle City Artists. Her short fiction has aired on public radio, and appeared in Raven Chronicles, The Americas Review, Seattle Magazine, New Millennium Writings and Calyx, and is forthcoming in the Connecticut Review. She has been awarded residencies at Hedgebrook, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her story "A Month in the Tropics", published in Issue #11 of Cha, is the opening chapter of her as yet unpublished novel When the De La Cruz Family Dances. [Read]