Audrey Shipp is an AWP Writer to Writer mentee and a PEN America Emerging Voices Workshop LA honoree whose hybrid memoir When I Was a Bilingual Writer Birthed by Black L.A. will be published by Unsolicited Press in 2027. Her writing has been published in various literary journals including Good River Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Litro USA, A Gathering Together, and Américas Review. She has English degrees from both UCLA and Cal State LA. Her professional life has been dedicated to teaching English and ESL in public high schools in Los Angeles.