Jessica Stilling grew up in the small town of McHenry, Illinois and moved here, to Manhattan, last year. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Castalia Project, which can be viewed at www.CastaliaProject.org. She is also a prose editor for The Olive Tree Review. She is a Creative Writing and Comparative Literature major at Hunter College. She enjoys working on her stories and playing guitar with her band.