Teresa Burns Gunther is an award-winning author whose fiction and nonfiction have been published widely in US and international literary journals and anthologies. Her story collection Hold Off The Night, a Finalist for the Orison Book Prize 2019, is forthcoming from Truth Serum Press, a subsidiary of Bequem Publishing, May 2023. Her stories have been recognized in numerous contests, including “War Paint”, awarded the 52nd New Millennium Award for Fiction, 2022. She is the founder of Lakeshore Writers where she leads workshops and classes and offers coaching and developmental editing services.