A writing professor at California University of Pennsylvania, Carole Waterhouse’s stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Artful Dodge, Forum, Ceilidh, Eureka Literary Magazine, Parting Gifts, The Styles, Turnrow, Crossconnect, Half Tones to Jubilee, Potpourri and other literary magazines. A former newspaper reporter, she has reviewed books for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Pittsburgh Press and The New York Times. After spending two summers as a volunteer instructor at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution in Pittsburgh, she wrote a cover story about prison writers for The Pittsburgh Press Sunday Magazine. Without Wings, her first novel, is based loosely on her prison teaching experience.