Ava Hofmann is a writer currently living and working as an MFA candidate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her current project, leech-book: an anti-grimoire, is a transgenre work which concerns itself with trans/queer history, medieval magic, and the frustrated desire inherent to encounters with the literary archive. She has work published or forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Fence, BAX 2020, Anomaly, and Grimoire.Magazine. Her website is www.nothnx.com and her twitter is @st_somatic