Deirdre Sugiuchi is finishing her white evangelical captivity narrative, Unreformed, which takes place at a Christian nationalist reform school in the Dominican Republic. She also is working on a project called Two Mississippi. Her work has been featured in Electric Literature, Guernica, the Rumpus, Salon, and other places. Sugiuchi has been awarded residencies at the Albee Foundation, the Hambidge Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Wildacres. She is a recipient of the Key West Writers Seminar Teacher and Librarian Award, the Mark Austin Segura Award for Nonfiction, and of 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.