Sienna Zeilinger lives in Philadelphia and is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, CutBank, Passages North, Real Life, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of The Florida Review Editors Prize, the Ohioana Library Association’s Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant, and the Montana Prize, and has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her essay “Surge” was named a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2023. Sienna is an editor at Autofocus Books and a graduate of the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden, where she now works as Program Coordinator.