Gionni Ponce is a Macondista prose writer living in Tempe, Arizona. She was a 2021 Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing NEA Big Read Grant Partner and a 2020 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers’ Conference Fellow. In 2019, she received a full-tuition scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and was named a Writer in South Asia Fellow by Indiana University in 2018. Wherever she goes, she aims to create literary space for traditionally marginalized stories, both in her administrative work and as a teacher. While teaching at Indiana University, she was awarded the Earle J. S. Ho Award for Teaching Creative Writing and the Culbertson First Year Teaching Award. Her work is published in Kenyon Review Online, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Ocotillo Review, and The Workshop. She is currently working on a short story collection centered on bilingualism and multi-generational conflict in Mexican-American families.