Elisa Luna Ady is a writer from Southern California. She’s a 2025 Anthony Veasna So Scholar in Fiction, and was shortlisted for ONLY POEMS’ Inaugural Bob Hicok Poetry Fellowship. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Adroit Journal, Passages North, Witness, swamp pink, trampset, 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 Literature 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 at work on a novel, a short story collection, and a poetry chapbook.

Right now, she’s thinking about: summer as a third space; linguistic mutation/remixing; deadbeat daughters; liquor store uncles; insects.

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

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