Lorel Rea is a graduate of Northern Kentucky University with a degree in Creative Writing. She’s the recipient of the 2022 Thad Lindsey Book Award from NKU and has publications in The Feminine Collective and Loch Norse Magazine. She is obsessed with reading; anything that contains dragons, women with swords, or LGBTQIA+ characters is already on her TBR shelf. Though she lives in Northern Kentucky, her permanent address should be changed to the public library where you can often find her with tea and an open laptop.