Ava Guihama Olson is a writer and scholar from Los Angeles who has since moved north. They graduated with honors from UC Berkeley’s American Studies program, where their academic work concerned itself with sex, historiography, and the image of the Asian American woman in American culture. Ava is an alum of the Tin House Summer Workshop, and their work has been published in Wilde Magazine and Vision & Voice. You can reach them on instagram @avaguihama or at their website.