Roberta Hartling Gates is the author of Number 12 rue Sainte-
Catherine and Other Stories, forthcoming in 2024 from Running
Wild Press. In 2021, she was the winner of The Dogwood Literary
Prize in Fiction and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was
a runner-up in Solstice Solstice’s short story contest (2017), a
Narrative finalist (2013), and a Nelson Algren finalist (2002).
She has been published in Confrontation, Fourth Genre, the Beloit
Fiction Journal, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from the Vermont
College of Fine Arts and is a reader for The Examined Life Journal.
You can find her at www.rhgates.com.