Elisa Luna Ady is a writer from Southern California. Her poetry and fiction appear or are forthcoming in Adroit Journal, Passages North, Witness, Muzzle Magazine, The Best Small Fictions, and elsewhere. She holds a BA in English Literature from UC San Diego, where she won the 2021 Sherley Williams Memorial Award in Literary Arts, and an MFA in fiction and an MA in English from Northwestern University’s Litowitz Program, where she was awarded the 2025 English Department Prize for Best MFA Thesis. She lives in Chicago and is currently at work on a novel, a short story collection, and a poetry chapbook.

Email: elunady [at] gmail [dot] com.

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