Deirdre Sugiuchi recently finished her captivity narrative Unreformed, which is about how, despite being imprisoned in a White evangelical reform school in the Dominican Republic as an adolescent, she survived and thrived. She’s also working on a project called Two Mississippi. Her work has been featured in Electric Literature, Action-Spectacle, The Rumpus, Salon, and other places. The Albee Foundation, the Hambidge Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Wildacres have all supported her work. She’s received the Key West Writers Seminar Teacher and Librarian Award, the Mark Austin Segura Award for Nonfiction, and a 2023 Deming Award for feminist nonfiction. Sugiuchi is a contributing writer at Electric Literature, an assistant editor at The Rumpus, a co-founder of Athens, Georgia’s New Town Revue music and literature series, and until recently served as a public school librarian. Find her on Instagram and Substack.