Aurora Mattia was born in Hong Kong and lives in Texas, where her mother was born. Her first book, The Fifth Wound, was published by Nightboat in 2023. Her sophomore collection, Unsex Me Here is forthcoming from Nightboat in March 2025. Her stories have appeared in various magazines, and also in exhibitions at the RISD Museum and the Renaissance Society, accompanying portraits by Elle Pérez. She’s sometimes working on a new novel called Seven Come Eleven, sometimes writing country songs, and mostly doing something else.