Savannah Brooks earned her MFA in creative writing from Hamline University and her BS in marketing management from Virginia Tech. She spent the first decade of her career working in publishing, first as an editor and then as a literary agent, as well as on multiple literary magazines; after contracting a debilitating illness, she left the field to focus on teaching and does so through the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and the Flatiron Writing Room and Great Smokies Writing Program in Asheville. Previously, she taught at Hamline and the University of Minnesota, and she’s presented on both craft and publishing at more than two dozen writing conferences.

Primarily a short-form writer, her latest short stories are featured in Prime Number Magazine, New Plains Review, and Inscape; her latest essays in the Guardian, Hobart, and Barely South Review; and her latest book reviews in the Juice, Oyster River Pages, and the Hong Kong Review (let's just ignore that one poem lingering out there). She's been nominated for a Best of the Net Award, was a runner-up in a horror short story contest, and is continually putting together at least one short story collection (these things do tend to run away with her). 

Currently a Big Sister (Big Brothers Big Sisters) Guardian ad Litem (North Carolina Judiciary Branch), and reading tutor (Literacy Together), Savannah has volunteered in child advocacy, welfare, and education since she was in high school. A disabled writer living with the most literal of broken hearts (and stomachs), she resides in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, with her two black cats, Eggs Benedict and Toaster Strudel, and her fifty-plus houseplants (she's clearly coping well).