Salena Fehnel

Raised half under the open skies of the California Bay Area and half on the muddy farmlands of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Salena Fehnel bears the brand of a bi-coastal adult, gravitating toward sunshine and salty waters. Among her talents, she counts using the most sticks of butter possible for all recipes, picking the wrong toll booth lane, producing amazing human beings, taking the perfect twelve minute charger nap, finding sharp corners in seemingly impossible settings to bang her knee on, and sometimes, if it’s a good day, writing. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has been published in East Meets West, American Writer’s Review, The Cohort Review, Calliope, and in the national bestselling anthology My Parents Were Awesome. She teaches writing and literature at Berkeley College in New Jersey, where she savors students’ first experiences with great fiction writing. She shares her home in the Poconos with her husband, their daughter, and their overly-snuggly Great Dane.

Nesting Dolls is her first novel. Her second novel, The Payment Plan, is forthcoming June 2015.