Romy Rhoads Ewing is a writer and photographer from Sacramento, California. Her creative nonfiction and visual work has been published in UC Davis’s flagship literary magazine, Open Ceilings Magazine. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in BRAWL, HAD, Rejection Letters, Bullshit Lit, JAKE, Oyez Review, Bruiser Magazine, fifth wheel press, Nowhere Girl Collective, Major 7th Magazine, Querencia Press, Anti-Heroin Chic, Y2K Quarterly, MEMEZINE, and more. Her debut chapbook, please stay, was published by Bottlecap Press in 2024.

She also selected to be an upcoming guest editor for JAKE‘s Winter 2024 series and now edits poetry and nonfiction for them fulltime.

Romy also runs the archival site SACRAMENTO DIRTBAG ARCHIVES but she’s been slacking on that lately to be so honest.

Her sun, Mercury, and Venus are all in Pisces. Yikes.

She received her Bachelor of Arts in Child Development from Sacramento State University, and also holds an Associate of Arts in Anthropology. She is currently studying Japanese.