
Brenna Womer (she/her) is an experimental prose writer and poet. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at W&L University and the acting Editor-in-Chief of Shenandoah as well as a Contributing Editor for Story Magazine. She is the author of the full-length, mixed-genre collection honeypot (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019) and the chapbooks Atypical Cells of Undetermined Significance (C&R Press, 2018) and cost of living (Finishing Line Press, 2022). Her work has appeared in North American Review, Indiana Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Pinch, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere, and she’s a Contributing Editor for Story Magazine. Brenna was the Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University for the 2020/21 academic year and served as the Faculty Advisor for New Delta Review and the Delta Mouth Literary Festival. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Michigan University as well as an MA in Creative Writing and a BA in English Literature from Missouri State University. At NMU, she was an Associate Editor of Passages North and served as an Assistant Editor of Moon City Review and Intern for Moon City Press at Missouri State. She is queer- and female-identifying writer of Indigenous Mexican and Hispanic heritages. She was raised on Air Force bases in the US and abroad and currently resides in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia with her husband and rescue pit bull.