She received her B.A. in Classics and Comparative Literature from Brown University and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of the book Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination (Ohio 2008) as well as numerous articles and essays. Her short story "Calligraphy" won the 2015 Solstice Literary Magazine Fiction Prize. She is currently working on several fiction and nonfiction projects. An avid typewriter collector and apprentice mechanic, Fiske begins most of her writing projects on one of her 250+ personal typewriters.