Kiki Petrosino

Kiki Petrosino graduated from the University of Virginia in 2001. She spent the next two years teaching English and Italian at an international boarding school in Lugano, Switzerland. In 2004, she graduated from the University of Chicago with an MA degree in Humanities. Her thesis, a manuscript of original poems entitled Star Silo, received the Catherine Ham Best Thesis Award from the University of Chicago. Kiki is currently a second-year MFA student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. This is her first publication in a literary journal.