Gionni Ponce

Gionni Ponce is a prose writer living in Tempe, Arizona. She is a proud alumna of Macondo, Tin House, and VONA. In 2024, she was selected as a Poesiæuropa Fellow to travel to Italy to present on Octavia Butler’s influence on women of color writing sci-fi. She also created a film-poem with two other artists as a 2024 Patchwork Fellow. She’s organized workshops for young writers, assistant directed national writing workshops, and continues to host readings, workshops, and collaborative projects as an arts administrator. Wherever she goes, she aims to create storytelling space for traditionally marginalized stories as a writer, artist, cultural curator, and creative writing instructor. Her work is published in Iron Horse Literary Review, Kenyon Review Online, and South Carolina Review among other journals.