Raluca Comanelea is a writing consultant at UNLV’s Writing Center and a part-time instructor in UNLV’s Department of English. She earned her MA in literary studies from UNLV in 2019. She is currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing from Spalding University’s Sena Jeter Naslund-Mann School of Writing. Her fiction has been published in various literary magazines. She was born in Romania and now paints the world in fiction colors from her place of residence: Las Vegas.