Deni Naffziger is the author of five books including Strange Bodies, Desire to Stay, Still Life; Revenants: A Story of Many Lives (co-authored, funded by The Ohio Arts Council), and a children's coloring tale, A Story of Flying, which was produced for the Passion Works exhibition,"A Story of Flying," and was funded by The Ohio Arts Council. She has also published three chapbooks: Desire to Stay (The Spoon River Quarterly), Close to Home (Crazy River), and Intervals (Pikeville Review). Her work has been published in many literary magazinesand journals, including New Ohio Review, Atticus Review, The MacGuffin, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, The Main Street Rag, and others. For nearly twenty years, Naffziger edited Riverwind, a national literary publication (Hocking College, Nelsonville, Ohio.) She earneda Fulbright Scholarship in 1990 and taught Creative Writing and Advance Literature at Kendal College in Kendal, England. She has over thirty years of experience teaching creative writing and disability studies. Naffziger currently serves as Poet-In-Residence at Passion WorksCommunity Studio in Athens, Ohio.