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, Y2K Quarterly, MEMEZINE, and more. Her debut chapbook, please stay, was published by Bottlecap Press in 2024 and her zine, someday [everybody but] you + i will laugh about all of this, was released for the 3rd Annual Hallow-Zine Fest at Oak Park Brewing in 2025.

Romy runs the archival site SACRAMENTO DIRTBAG ARCHIVES. She also edits poetry and nonfiction for JAKE.

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.