Ayden LeRoux is a writer, artist, critic, and educator from New England, whose work focuses on the convergence of illness, sexuality, and embodiment. Her essays, fiction, criticism, and translation have appeared in Catapult, Electric Literature, Cosmonauts Avenue, Palimpsest, Alchemy, Los Angeles Review of Books, edibleManhattan, and Glasstire. She is the co-author of Odyssey Works with long-time collaborator Abraham Burickson, and is working on a book of nonfiction titled Notes on Breathlessness.