Tantra Bensko teaches fiction writing through UCLA X Writing Program, Writers College, and her own academy. She is the author of Lucid Membrane (Night Publishing), Collapsible Horizon (LucidPlay Publishing), The Cabinet of What You Don't See (ISMs Press), Watching the Windows Sleep (Naissance Press), Swinging on the Edge of Day (Naissance Press), and Liminal (10 Pages Press.) Her novella, Equinox Mirror, is forthcoming from ELJ.She has had a couple hundred narratives in magazines and anthologies, such as Surreal South (Press 53), Women Writing the Weirdj I and II, (Dog Horn Press), and Triangulation: Parch (Parsec Ink) as well as a substantial number of poems, articles, photography, and art publications. Tomes to find her work in next include Strange Little Girls, Holdfast, and Zymbol.She maintains the resource website Everything Experimental Writing, and has published Literary authors' work. She has an MA from FSU, and an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. She is particularly interested in understanding societal manipulation, and chooses to write outside that paradigm.She lives in Berkeley. http://lucidmembrane.weebly.com/