Azaria is a Creative Writing doctoral student specializing in fiction. In a previous life, she was a nonprofit administrator and illustrator. She holds a BA in English from the University of Lynchburg and an MFA from Butler University. Her chapbook, The Smiths of 115th Street, is forthcoming from WTAW Press.

She is interested in writing about magical realism, speculative fiction, Gothic fiction, motherhood, addiction, how religion affects Black communities/families, and the implementation of pop culture (specifically television and film) in literature and pedagogy.

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