Contessa Riggs received an MFA in writing from Vermont College in 2006. Her work has appeared in the literary magazine Marginalia and been collected in the anthologies East of the Bay: Writers on the Chesapeake, and Of a Monstrous Child. She received first runner up for fiction in the 2008 Poets and Writers Maureen Egen Writer’s Exchange and an honorable mention in Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Narrative’s essay contest. For the last 10 years her writing has sat on a shelf while she raised her son and dealt with a series of family crises. She is both looking forward to giving herself time and space to write again and terrified that she can’t.
