Writer, Educator
<p>DeMisty D. Bellinger, a Wisconsin native, has a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an MFA from Southampton College. In the past, she has volunteered as a reporter for Milwaukee’s Riverwest Currents, written columns for the Lincoln Journal Star, and contributed to Lincoln's Star City Blog. Her fiction can be found in Diverse Voices Quarterly, LITSNACK, Wilderness House Review, Touch: The Journal of Healing, SpringGun Journal, The Monarch Review, and NAP. DeMisty enjoys reading and studying working class literature, women's literature, and African-American literature.</p> <p>DeMisty lives in Wisconsin with her husband and twin daughters. She teaches English and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.</p>