Tori Schacht graduated with a degree in English literature from Hamilton College. She spent a year riding motorbikes over precipitous terrain, attending the weddings of strangers, and learning to appreciate air conditioning as an English teacher in Indonesia. Since then she's worked in book publishing in New York. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Rain Taxi, and Full Stop, and her reviews have been featured in the Powell's Review-a-Day.