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, JAKE, 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 was also 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 most formative artistic influences have been Lana del Rey, Lorde, Sufjan Stevens, Hayao Miyazaki, Melissa Broder, Sally Rooney, Anne Carson, Billy Collins, 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.