Thea Prieto is the author of From the Caves (2021), which won the 2019 Red Hen Press Novella Award. She is a recipient of the Laurels Award Fellowship, and a finalist for the international Edwin L. Stockton, Jr. Award and Glimmer Train‘s Short Story Award for New Writers. Her work has appeared at New Orleans Review, Longreads, Yalobusha Review, and The Masters Review, among other journals, and she writes and edits for Poets & Writers, Propeller Magazine, and The Gravity of the Thing. She teaches creative writing and publishing at Portland State University and Portland Community College.