Arya Samuelson is a writer and editor. She is the winner of New Ohio Review’s 2023 Nonfiction Prize and 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.

“Our bodies are made of stories. In every paragraph, I ask myself: where is the body? Even in numbness or violence or disassociation, the body speaks.”