BRITTANY MEANS is a Chicana writer and editor living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A graduate of the University of Iowa’s MFA Nonfiction Writing Program, Means has worked with writers Inara Verzemnieks and Kiese Laymon. She has received several awards for her work, including the Magdalena Award, the Geneva Fellowship, the Grace Paley Fellowship, and the Herodotus Award.