Marléne Zadig (rhymes with "train a bad pig") lives and writes in Maryland (just outside D.C.). She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UMD (College Park) and studied Journalism at Georgetown. Her literary work has appeared in Epoch, Michigan Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, Cimarron Review, The Fiddlehead, The Rumpus, and the annual Longform list for Best in Fiction. She’s currently a staff reporter at the Hyattsville Life & Times, where she writes a column called, “What the Hyattsville?” Her interests often collide with modern utopias, innovation in education, climate change, and the intersections of science, art, & culture. You know, spacetime, brains, etc.