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 non-fiction 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 someday hopes to represent both.
Specializing in both non-fiction 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 lots, and lots of self exploration. 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.