Montanna Rayne Harling is an asexual writer with an inherited chronic illness, whose speculative fiction explores matrilineal and ecological lineages. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches undergraduate speculative fiction workshops and serves as an Assistant Director at the Juniper Writing Institutes. Montanna is a 2024 graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, and her work has appeared in F(r)iction Magazine and O(the)r People Magazine. 