Chelsea Laine Wells is a creative writing teacher and managing editor of Hypertext Magazine, living in Dallas, TX. Her work has been published in Pithead Chapel, PANK, New South, Split Lip, and many others. A limited-edition book containing her work was released by Lark Sparrow Press in 2016. Eleven of her stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, with "The Contents of Her Stomach" featuring in Best of the Net 2015. How You Come Back is her first novel.