Help Teri cover a shortfall while she gets her MFA

Hey folks. Teri Zin, a lyrical writer; beloved member of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror community; and aspiring teacher, needs some help. She's just started working on her MFA in Creative Writing Pedagogy this semester at Lesley University, and she's been just loving the intense care and detail the program is challenging her to bring to her study of the written word. She wants to bring that intensity to college kids of her own as a professor one day. And that day isn't too far off. She's just got a year and a half left after this semester, and already has a job waiting for her when she warps up.

 

But she's got to get there first. Life has been doing the thing it's always been so good at (even more so in recent years) and yanked the rug out from under Teri just as she was getting started. She has a scholarship to cover her tuition, but tuition doesn't keep a roof over a head or food in a belly. Unfortunately, a big source of funding she was counting on to cover the daily bread and shelter has dried up, and she needs some help covering her housing and other costs for the next stretch. And she's going to have to drop from the program if she doesn't get that help.

 

If there's one thing we can do, all us weirdos and dreamers in the speculative fiction, it's imagine a future, or a world, or a reality where things are better. So let's imagine a world where this Bram Stoker-nominated and This is Horror Award-winning writer of many great short stories; this author of the deeply lush and gorgeous novella Flowers for the Sea; and this human who the world is richer for having in it, can catch her dream and help bring more writers into this world. And then let's stop imagining it, and make it so.