Tracy Abeyta (Genízaro) is a third grade dropout who didn’t get a GED but recently graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute for American Indian Arts, where she studied alongside her cousins. Tracy has published short stories in Hobart Pulp, the Brooklyn Review, Diagram, Boston Review, Epoch and Prairie Schooner and has received support to attend Breadloaf, Kenyon Review, the Fine Arts Work Center, and Tin House conferences. She is currently writing a book called Calavera. She has written original TV comedy pilots around the themes of gentrification in the Bay Area and has co-written and collaborated on various comedy and drama pilots and features. Her ancestors on her dad’s side were in New Mexico before it was called New Mexico, and she is still mastering her grandmother’s biscochito cookie recipe. Tracy teaches literature and lives in Oakland with a free-roaming lionhead rabbit named Betty who is two pounds but can eat a tunnel through a couch.