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, Bullshit Lit, Querencia Press, fifth wheel press, Nowhere Girl Collective, Major 7th Magazine, Anti-Heroin Chic, Y2K Quarterly, Querencia Press, MEMEZINE, and more. Her debut chapbook, please stay, was published by Bottlecap Press in 2024. She was selected to be an upcoming guest editor for JAKE‘s Winter 2024 series.

Her sun, Mercury, and Venus are all in Pisces, and she is a complete sucker for hopeless romanticism, Y2K shoujo anime, gin and tonics, and, of course, everyone who has inspired and supported her. Her work is ultimately the culmination of her time as many things: a short-lived community college cheerleader, a barista in a drive-through coffee shop, a solidly mediocre trip-sitter, a substitute teacher, a waitress at a craft brewery, a teacher’s aide at a mental health facility, a baker at a donut shop, and more.

Her most formative artistic influences have been Lana del Rey, Lorde, Sufjan Stevens, Hayao Miyazaki, Melissa Broder, Sally Rooney, Louise Glück, Anne Carson, Billy Collins, Chelsea Dingman, Rachelle Toarmino, Mary Oliver, Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, David Sedaris, Kevin Wilson, Richard Siken, and Elle Nash. 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.