Lynette D’Amico worked in publishing and advertising for a decade or longer. Today, she is a former ad writer and a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Ocean State Review and at Brevity and Slag Glass City. ROAD TRIP was originally a finalist for the Paris Literary Prize and, as part of a collection, for the 2012 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Born in Buffalo, New York, she has lived in St. Louis, Minneapolis, and Chicago. She makes her home in Rhode Island, but she has a prairie eye.