Darci Schummer is a writer and educator from the Midwest. Primarily a fiction writer, she is the author of the story collection Six Months in the Midwest (Unsolicited Press 2014), co-author of the poetry/prose collaboration Hinge (broadcraft press 2015), and author of the novel The Ballad of Two Sisters (Unsolicited Press 2023). Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Folio, Jet Fuel Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Matchbook, and Necessary Fiction, among other places. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Colorado State University Pueblo.