Thatcher Carter is a fiction and creative non-fiction writer based in Riverside, CA, where she teaches at Riverside City College. Her essays have been published in Journal of Popular Culture, 3Elements Review, Muse, Under the Gum Tree, and the anthologies Awake in the World and 2017 Writing from Inlandia. She was honored to participate in the Writer-to-Writer Program with the Association of Writers & Writing Programs and is working on her first novel Salt City. She lives in Riverside in an empty nest with her husband Ross and their two springer spaniels.