Originally from California’s Central Coast, Ariel currently lives in Laguna Hills California. She recently graduated with a degree in creative writing from California State University, Long Beach. She has publications in 22 West Media Magazine, Quibble Literary Journal and The Stonecoast Review. While going to school, she was the senior editor for RipRap Literary Magazine’s nonfiction department.

Her work is quite personal for her, and often 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 let poetry go without borders. She has a soft spot for speculative fiction as well as unfiltered girls, and someday hopes to represent both.

Specializing in both nonfiction and fiction, Ariel produces pieces that reflect the life she’s lived: insufferable minimum wage jobs, years of academia, a brief stint as a college dropout and self exploration.