Jen Soriano (she/they) is an award-winning writer, independent scholar, musician, and movement strategist with more than 20 years of experience working at the intersection of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and art-driven social change. Jen's essays have received the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Prize from the Center for Women Writers, the Fugue Prose Prize, and fellowships from Hugo House, Vermont Studio Center, and the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat. Jen is author of the chapbook “Making the Tongue Dry” and co-editor of Closer to Liberation: A Pina/xy Activist Anthology. They write about mental health, colonization, race and gender, history and science, and social justice issues at large, to shine light on marginalized stories and to share radical worldviews through an artistic lens. Her first book, Nervous, is now available for pre-order from Bookshop or your local independent bookstore.