Tessa Fontaine’s writing has appeared in “PANK,” “Seneca Review,” “The Rumpus,” “Sideshow World,” and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama and is working on a PhD in creative writing at the University of Utah. She also eats fire and charms snakes, among other sideshow feats. She lives in South Carolina. “The Electric Woman,” published by Farrar Straus and Giroux in May 2018, is her first book.