Carol Edelstein is the co-founder of Gallery of Readers, a nonprofit, independent literary press in Northampton, Massachusetts. With Elizabeth M. George, she edits Switch, an online magazine of micro fiction. She is the author of The World Is Round (Amherst Writers and Artists Press, 1994), The Disappearing Letters (Perugia Press, 2005) and Past Repair (Simian Press, 2020). Her poetry and fiction have been featured in numerous anthologies and literary magazines, including The Massachusetts Review, The Georgia Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review.