Sienna Zeilinger lives in Philadelphia and is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, CutBank, HAD, Real Life, and Passages North, among others, and was recognized with the Montana Prize in 2022. She is an editor at Alien Magazine and Autofocus and a features reader for The Rumpus. Her essay “Surge” was named a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2023. Sienna has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and is a recent graduate of the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden, where she now works as Program Coordinator.