Sandra K. Barnidge is a writer based in Northport, Alabama. She' s originally from Beloit, Wisconsin, but made her way south in pursuit of love, academia, and warmer gardening zones. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Reckon Review, Atlas Obscura, Barren, The Fiddlehead, Nimrod, and elsewhere. She holds a master' s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama. The Diamondbacks is her first novel.