Anara Guard is a fiction writer and poet living in Sacramento. She has attended Bread Loaf Writers Workshop and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley in fiction. Her collection of short stories, Remedies for Hunger (New Wind Publishing) received four stars from the Chicago Book Review. She has been published in Convergence, Under the Gum Tree, The Ear, Gold Man Review and Late Peaches: An Anthology of Sacramento Poets. Follow her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/