Penny Guisinger is the author of two memoirs, Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions from University of Nebraska Press and Postcards from Here from Vine Leaves Press. Her work has appeared in Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Guernica, Solstice Literary Magazine, and others. Pushcart nominated, a four-time Maine Literary Award winner, and a three-time notable in Best American Essays, she is a co-director of Iota Short Forms and a former assistant editor at Brevity. Penny is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Program. She lives near Lubec with her wife, college-aged kids, and a slowly evolving number of dogs.Â
Penny is a member of the
Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.