Naomi Shuyama-Gómez is a writer based in the greater NYC area, on ancestral and unceded Munsee Lenape land. Her fiction and poetry appear or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, The Margins, Gulf Coast Journal, The Cincinnati Review, The Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Florida Review, the minnesota review and Mount Hope Literary Journal. She’s received scholarships/fellowships from Kundiman, Immigrant Writers’ Workshop, CRIT Works LLC., Fine Arts Work Center, New York State Summer Writer’s Institute, and Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Her story is included in The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners.