Jai Clare's short stories have appeared in The London Magazine, Agni, The Barcelona Review, Absinthe New European Writing, Fiction International and various international anthologies. She has taught creative writing and English literature at University College Falmouth and many other places. Her areas of interest are the short story, European fiction, and the non-realist poetic novel. She writes to surprise herself with words and find out things unknown to her, putting words together to form new ideas and emotions. Once she even tried to sing in a goth band! Her novel, Paradox Junkie, is represented by John Jarrold of the John Jarrold Agency. Her website is at www.jaiclare.com