Miriam Polli’s debut novel In a Vertigo of Silence, published by Serving House, was named one of the Best Indie Books of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews. Her stories and poems have been published in commercial and literary magazines and are included in two anthologies. She received recognition from the Italian American Writers Association for her story “Gifts of Grief” and an honorable mention for the World’s Greatest Short Short Story Competition, where there were several thousand entries. Her poem “First Born” won the 11th Annual Robert Frost Poetry Contest. She is also a recipient of a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. A native New Yorker, Miriam now lives in Virginia.