JR Lamm is a Cleveland-based novelist who grew up in the Pacific Northwest and recently relocated for reasons that may or may not have included fireflies. Her humorous personal essay “Nostalgia vs. the Chickens” was published in the 2023 January edition of The Razor magazine, and her novel The Watcher, the Thief, and the Sacrifice was a finalist in Gutsy Great Novelist’s 2022 Page One Prize. You can visit her website at jodilamm.com to sample her young adult work.