Nadine Santoro is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and facilitator. She is the Publicity Director of Deep Vellum and the curator and host of Patchwork Literary Salon, a monthly reading series. She also co-hosts the podcast Thinking Straight, a lesbian anthropological dig into the world of heterosexual romance novels, and writes the snail-mail newsletter The Doorway. Nadine is a graduate of Fordham University, where she studied creative writing and theology. She lives in Brooklyn with her fiancée and their two senior dogs, Knives and Young Neil.