Katherine Scott Nelson (Scott, they/them) writes fiction and creative nonfiction. Scott’s novella, Have You Seen Me, was published by the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography and was a finalist in multiple categories for the Lambda Literary Awards. They have an MFA in creative writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and have attended summer in-person workshops at Tin House and Kenyon College (forthcoming, ’24). Their short stories and essays have been featured in Brevity, Catapult, Ninth Letter, Confrontation, Whiskey Island, and elsewhere. Born and raised in the Chicago area, Scott lives in Los Angeles.