Iliria Osum is an interdisciplinary artist currently living and working on unceded Kumeyaay land in Southern California; she earned an MFA in Writing from UC San Diego in 2022. Her dramatic and interactive work has been produced in San Diego, CA by the Blindspot Collective for the La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival; on Payaya land in San Antonio, TX at the Communion Gallery; on Lenape land in New York City, NY at The Tank, The Center at West Park, and The Brick; and in London, UK at Ugly Duck. Meanwhile, her poetry and prose have been published in a variety of journals, most recently ANTAE, NonBinary Review, Fast Pop Lit, and Down in the Dirt.