Nicole DePolo is a writer, illustrator, and graphic designer. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University. She lived in Seattle, Washington for over a decade, and there created original designs for the City of Seattle, the Seattle Poetry Festival, Eleventh Hour Productions, DTN Productions, and Microsoft. She is now back in her hometown of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania where she acts as the Production Editor/Graphic Designer for Etruscan Press, and teaches Computer Graphics at Wilkes University. She has served as an editor, graphic designer, and staff writer for a number of periodicals, and has had a short story published and produced as a play. She is a reader for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship Award, and has recently completed her first novel, The Glass Angel.