For over two decades, Nadia Ghent was a classically-trained professional violinist in New York. Born into a family of musicians, she holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music and Harvard. Now a writer, she’s been published in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Bellevue Literary Review, Solstice, and elsewhere. Her work has been long listed for the 2025 Granum Foundation Prize, the Unleash Work-in-Progress Prize, and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. Find more of her writing at nadiaghent.com.