Larysa Shaw is an emerging writer who was born and raised in Denver, and still calls it home today. She has a passion for sharing her love of creative writing with the younger generation by mentoring students in her community. She is also currently a fiction editor for The Adroit Journal. Her work has previously appeared in Twenty Bellows, Synkroniciti, Tempered Runes Press, Little Creatures, and Mapping the Body: Poetry & Anatomical Art.