Colleen Markley has been published in multiple anthologies and magazines, including Sisters! Bonded by Love and Laughter, Grown & Flown, Ignatian Literary Magazine, Apricity Magazine, The Writing Cooperative, and Soundings East. Colleen was awarded the Nickie’s Prize for Humor Writing and was the June 2021 winner of the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop Humor Writer of the Month. She earned a degree in film and television from Boston University with a focus on screenwriting. Colleen spent twenty years working in the nonprofit sector, starting with Channel Thirteen/WNET (New York Public Television), and is now a writing instructor and nonprofit consultant. www.colleenmarkley.com.