Ariel Katz’s short stories have been published in the Sewanee Review, Missouri Review, Colorado Review, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere; her essays appear on the Ploughsharesblog. 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. Her writing has been supported by the Ucross Foundation, Inprint Houston, and more.