Dalena Storm (they/them) lives in Western Massachusetts with their husband, daughter, and two cats. They earned their BA from Williams College in 2009 and their MFA in Fiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars in 2015. Dalena published THE HUNGRY GHOST, their first novel, in 2019.
In addition to writing, Dalena enjoys teaching, including a Winter Study course at Williams College titled “How to Write Auto-Fiction,” and they have taught poetry to children through The Mastheads poetry program. They will be an adjunct instructor of Creative Writing at MCLA for the 2024-25 school year.
Dalena is currently at work on a joint novel project with their partner, Jason Ānanda Storm, under the working title of KINGWOOD, and a personal project: INTIMATE TRAPS.