Z Kennedy-Lopez is the fiction editor of the Atticus Review, and his own fiction and essays have appeared in Catapult, Foglifter, Autostraddle, Hobart Pulp, Storm Cellar, and A Velvet Giant, among many others. They have taught at the University of California, Davis, Rutgers University-Camden, and the Cooper Street Writing Workshops. They hold a BA from Southern Oregon University, an MA in English from the University of California, Davis, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-Camden.