Caitlin Palmer graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in English and a minor in Journalism. She received her M.F.A. In Creative Writing from the University of Idaho, where she held the Hemingway Fellowship. She has received support for her writing from the Tin House Writers Workshop and the Napa Valley Writers Conference. She has publications in online literary journals such as DIAGRAM, Essay Daily, Terrain.org, New Delta Review, and others, as well as the print anthology This Side of the Divide: New Lore of the American West. She is a fiction reader for The Missouri Review, and is represented by Janklow & Nesbit Associates in New York for an upcoming novel set in the Midwest.