Arielle Burgdorf

Arielle Burgdorf is a writer originally from Washington, D.C. They received their MFA from Chatham University where they taught in the Words Without Walls program at Allegheny County Jail and were awarded Best Fiction Thesis and the Creative Excellence Award. Their writing has appeared in Lambda Literary, Maximum Rocknroll, Crab Fat Magazine, X-Ray Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. They are currently pursuing their PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz and are a Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Fellow for 2021.