Inna Effress

Inna is a speechwriter, fiction writer, and poet who emigrated from Ukraine to the U.S. as a child. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appears or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including The Harvard Advocate, USC's Air/Light Magazine, Folio, and has been anthologized in The Best Horror of the Year, among others.

"Her stories are unsummarizable, and do not exist apart from their style... Inna’s work is not about manners or current affairs, but instead her stories function as vehicles to probe the centers of darkness within all of us, those timeless places that define, far more than manners or politics, what it means to be human." - Jim Krusoe, author of The Sleep Garden