Leslie Salas is a Dean's Fellow in the Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Central Florida, where she serves as a managing editor for The Florida Review among her many duties as a graduate student. Salas' work—both prose and comics—has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southeast Review, Sphere, and Burrow Press' 15 Views of Tampa Bay; you can follow her progress by visiting Leslie Learns Lines. When she isn't writing, drawing, reading, teaching, blogging, crocheting, diving, shooting, fire-dancing, or training in aikido, you can find her baking sweets-cheesecake, cookies, and cupcakes mostly. Her favorite dessert, however, is plain strawberry shortcake drowning in whipped cream.