Jennifer Ruden has published in Nerve, Word Riot, Puerto del Sol, Literary Mama, Amarillo Bay, Eclectica and a few others here and there. She just finished a novel and is listening patiently as her first readers tear it to shreds. She writes in Albuquerque when her husband and their two children are napping. Unfettered praise can be mailed to jenruden@gmail.com Criticism can be sent to flingit@yourmomma.com.