Carrie Cogan (she/her) writes about loners, light, open spaces, animal encounters, and the human heart. She is a past winner of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Society Fiction Prize and the Kenyon Review Nonfiction Contest. Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review, Bennington Review, AGNI, Pinch, Nimrod, Louisiana Literature and elsewhere. Cogan has been awarded residencies at MacDowell, Ucross and Ragdale, as well as a 2024 Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant. She lives with her sons on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, where she’s at work on her first novel.