Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio was a 2023-2025 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, TX where she served as poetry editor of Bat City Review. As an undergraduate, she earned her BA from Bennington College. She was a finalist and honorable mention for Washington Square Review’s inaugural New Voices Award (selected by Terrance Hayes) and has received support from the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Luci has two lesbian moms and is originally from New Jersey.