Crissy Van Meter is writer + editor in Los Angeles. She has an MFA in Fiction from The New School in New York City. Her fiction has appeared in Monkeybicycle, TROn, NANO Fiction, The Collapsar, Whiskeypaper and others. Her non-fiction has appeared online for ESPN, VICE and The Hairpin. She's the co-founder of Five Quarterly, an online literary project out of Brooklyn. She is the fiction editor for Golly Magazine, and the managing editor for Nouvella Books. She writes about books for Bustle.