Flora K. Schildknecht is the author of Megafauna: Stories and Screenplay (Fleur-de-Lis Press, Louisville, 2018). The title story of the collection has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Other stories have appeared in Sisyphus, 2nd and Church, The Chaffin Journal, and The Louisville Review. Schildknecht teaches at Bellarmine University, where she teaches courses in literature, playwriting, and humanities. Her love of travel has taken her to Japan, Tanzania, Argentina, Mexico, Great Britain, and to Scandinavia and much of Europe. She earned an MFA from Spalding University, where she studied fiction and screenwriting. Schildknecht is a student in the doctoral program in Humanities at the University of Louisville.