Penny Pennell lives and writes in Illinois. Her fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming in Reflex Press Flash Fiction, Harpur Palate, jmww, Portland Metrozine, Nightingale & Sparrow, Jersey Devil Review, 3Elements, Barnstorm, and others. She earned a master’s degree in English from the University of Illinois at Springfield. Currently she is working on a novel and television pilot. She is an avid gardener and Chicago Cubs fan.