Arya Samuelson is a writer, editor, and educator. She is the winner of New Ohio Review’s 2023 Nonfiction Prize, the 2024 Lascaux Prize in Nonfiction, CutBank’s Montana Prize in Nonfiction (awarded by Cheryl Strayed.) Her work has been selected as Notable in Best American Essays 2024. She is also a somatic practitioner-in-training. Arya lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

“As a writer, I unearth the stories of the body and transform them into art. As an editor, educator, and somatic practitioner-in-training, I help others do the same.”