Chris Lombardi's fiction has been shortlisted for the Pushcart Prize and the Bellwether Prize, and won both the Lowell de Jur Prize and the Germaine Griffin Moore Prize at City College of New York. Lombardi's also a veteran journalist and advocate, and author of the nonfiction I Ain't Marching Anymore (New Press, 2020). Lombardi's fiction has been published in minnesota review, Anything That Moves, Lurch, The Pearl, Living Room, and assorted anthologies, including Hey! Paesan: Lesbians and Gays of Italian Descent. Her journalism has been published by The Nation, Ms. Magazine, Poets & Writers, Women's Enews, ABA Journal, American Book Review and Inside MS. Her novel The Suicide Project was one of 12 finalists for Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize.