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EZRA FOX is a Best of the Net nominee who lives and writes in San Francisco, CA and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University. Their infatuation with poetry began in 2nd grade when they composed their first piece, a dedicated ode to skunks, which earned the honor of "poem of the week" at their school's library.
Ezra's writing explores the tensions between lineage, queer identity, and spirituality as they intersect with concepts of impermanence and non-duality. A Bread Loaf, Tin House, Lambda Literary, Sundress Publications, and Kearny Street Workshop Fellow, and recipient of the Lili Elbe Memorial Scholarship, which recognizes transgender writers of exceptional promise, their work appears or is forthcoming in TriQuarterly, The Pinch, Fourteen Hills, Interim, and elsewhere.
Additionally, they won the 2025 West Trade Review Poetry Prize, and was selected as a finalist for Palette Poetry’s 2025 Queer Poetry Prize, Bellingham Review’s 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, and Birdcoat Quarterly's Editors' Choice Prize in Poetry. They also serve as assistant judge of the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, and are a poetry reader for Sontag Mag.
Apart from writing, Ezra maintains a daily practice of reconnecting with their inner child: roller-skating, playing drums, and enjoying animated films and theme parks. In quieter moments, they can be found sharing cups of tea and sweet treats with their beloveds.