Arya Samuelson is a writer and editor. She is the winner of New Ohio Review’s 2023 Nonfiction Prize (awarded by Barrie Jean Borich) and CutBank’s Montana Prize in Nonfiction (awarded by Cheryl Strayed.) 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.