Originally from California’s Central Coast, Ariel currently lives in Laguna Hills, California with her best friend and her seven aquatic snails. She recently graduated with a degree in creative writing from California State University, Long Beach, where she was the senior nonfiction editor for RipRap Literary Magazine.
Ariel’s work is quite personal for her, and takes inspiration from her everyday life. She aims to link queerness and girlhood to humor, because nothing in its entirety is just one thing, and gay girls are funny; create a world of lyricism in fantastical stories and find the poetry in everything. She has a soft spot for speculative fiction as well as unfiltered girls, and uses her work to represent both.
She has publications in 22 West Media Magazine, Quibble Literary Journal, Pink Panther Magazine and The Stonecoast Review. She was also the 2024 winner of Welter University’s 60-word short story contest, and is an alumni of Futurescapes workshops.