Marissa Castrigno has worked with literary magazines like Oxford American, Ecotone, and Shenandoah. Her own writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Barren, PANK Daily, Kissing Dynamite, and others; she was a 2021 Humor Finalist for the Missouri Review‘s Miller Audio Prize. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from UNC Wilmington, and a BA in English from Wesleyan University.