Liv Kane is a writer and filmmaker interested in exploring the intersections between community storytelling, ecology, and food systems. They served as the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at the San Antonio Public Library and received the New York Life Award for their work in 2019. A graduate of Kenyon College and a recipient of the George B. Ogden Award, their work has appeared in River Teeth Journal, Reckoning Magazine, the Rumpus, and is forthcoming in Fourth Genre. They were a finalist for Bellingham Review’s Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, as well as the Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize. They published their first essay collection, Gulfwater, with Sunset Press in Spring 2021, and are currently pursuing their MFA in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa, where they are an Iowa Arts Fellow.