Melissa Ren is a Chinese-Canadian writer whose narratives tend to explore the intersection between belonging and becoming. She is a prize recipient of Room Magazine’s Fiction Contest, a grant recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts, and an editor at Augur Magazine and Tales & Feathers. Her writing has appeared or forthcoming in Factor Four Magazine, Fusion Fragment, DreamForge Magazine, and elsewhere. Find her at linktr.ee/MelissaRen or follow @melisfluous on socials.