Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Z Kennedy-Lopez is a word-slinger and sometimes-educator who likes cats, swimming, and Latinx/Latine electronic music. They write a lot about animals and apocalypses, and their work has won a six-word story contest judged by Amy Hempel, been nominated for a Pushcart, and has appeared/is forthcoming in publications like Hobart Pulp, Storm Cellar, TSR Online, Arkana Mag, A VELVET GIANT, and others. They are a fiction reader for the Atticus Review, and can be found on Instagram and Twitter, both @queerbooksloth.