Elaine Crauder’s fiction can be found in The Commuter at Electric Literature; Write City Magazine; Cleaver; Scoundrel Time; Running Wild Anthology of Short Stories, Volume 1; Cooweescoowee; Penumbra; The Boston Literary Magazine; and The Eastern Iowa Review. Her short story “Field Trip to the Heart” (previously titled “The Artificial Heart”) was the winner of the 2015 Westmoreland Short Story Award; a semi-finalist in Ruminate Magazine’s William Van Dyke Short Story Prize in 2018; and a semi-finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom’s Creative Writing Competition in 2016.