Ariel Katz is a writer based in Houston, TX. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and 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 also a fiction editor for Gulf Coast.