Toni Nealie is a writer, journalist, and teacher living in Chicago. Recent essays appeared in Guernica and The Prague Review. She worked in magazines, politics, and public relations in the U.K and her native New Zealand before moving to the U.S. with her family two weeks before 9/11. She holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and her first book of essays is forthcoming from Curbside Splendor in May 2016.