Arya Samuelson is a writer and editor. 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. As a creative writing instructor and somatic practitioner in-training, her passion is to help people unearth the stories of their bodies and transform them into art. She 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.”