Jennifer Skalka Tulumello is a writer pursuing an MFA in fiction at Bennington College (expected January 2026). A former journalist on staff at the Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, and the Concord Monitor, her work has also appeared in The Boston Globe,  Washingtonian Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications. You might have seen her on cable television (CNN, MSNBC, FOX), but in recent years, you would be more likely to spot her with her husband and two young children in the Washington, DC, area. She is at work on her first novel.