Jen Soriano (she~they) is a writer and movement builder who has long worked at the intersection of grassroots organizing, narrative strategy, and art-driven social change. She has won the Penelope C. Niven Prize for Creative Nonfiction, the Fugue Prose Prize, and fellowships from Hugo House, Vermont Studio Center, Artist Trust, and Jack Jones Literary Arts. Soriano is also an independent scholar and performer, author of the chapbook Making the Tongue Dry, and coeditor of Closer to Liberation: Pin[a/x]y Activism in Theory and Practice. She received a BA in history and science from Harvard University and an MFA in fiction and nonfiction from the Rainier Writing Workshop. Originally from a landlocked part of the Chicago area, Soriano now lives with her family in Seattle near the Duwamish River and the Salish Sea.