Ariel Katz is a writer based in Houston, TX. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, her fiction appears or is forthcoming in the Sewanee Review, Missouri Review, Colorado Review, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere; her essays appear on the Ploughshares blog. She’s pursuing a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Houston, where she’s a Mitchell Center for the Arts Interdisciplinary Scholar & an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor fellow. She’s a fiction editor for Gulf Coast.