Elise Thi Tran is a writer, poet, and multimedia artist. Currently an MFA candidate at WashU, she is the 2022 First Pages Prize winner and a fiction judge for NYC Midnight. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Apogee, Blackbird, Diode, Copper Nickel, The Kenyon Review, Poet Lore, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. Find Elise on Instagram @elise.tran and selections of her work at linktr.ee/elisethi