Ginnah Howard is a long-time book lover who came to writing later in life. She explains: "I came to writing by chance in my late 40's. The New York State English Bureau began to press all teachers to actively write with their students: how could you teach something that you didn't do yourself? I remember writing my first short story as part of an assignment I'd given one of my senior classes. After a weekend of struggling to put into fictional scenes the experience of seeing a boy have an epileptic seizure on the playground when I was a sixth grader, I said to my class, 'Wow, writing a story is hard isn't it?' "

Since then, Ginnah Howard's stories have appeared in Water~Stone Review, Permafrost, Phoebe, Portland Review, Descant 145, Short Story,and elsewhere. Several have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Work is forthcoming in Cobalt and Poem.  She was awarded the NAMI New York Media Award in 2009.  Her novel, Night Navigation (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) was a New York Times Editors' Choice.

For more about Ginnah Howard, visit her website at http://www.ginnahhoward.com/

Ginnah Howard (left) wrote the short stories Imperatives and People Like Him for Stone Canoe Online.