K. Reed Petty, Second Place winner in the 2014 Narrative 30 Below Contest, is a writer from Maryland with a BA from the College of William and Mary and an MLitt from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. In 2011 she worked with the nonprofit group Electric Literature on the launch of an audio storytelling app. She lives in Brooklyn and is a volunteer mentor with Girls Write Now, a community of women writers aged thirteen to eighty-three.