Zaji Cox has been creating stories since she started reading at age three, discovering her passion for writing when she wrote her first short story at nine years old. She began seriously considering it as she went on to write and self-publish a fantasy/adventure novel by the time she was thirteen, later writing a collection of short stories for her high school senior project in 2012 that she self-published in a compilation book in 2016. She has been invited to participate at several events including the PDX Poetry Festival, Survival of the Feminist reading series, and Corporeal Writing’s LOOP; she recently was the winner in the poetry category of Submission PDX’s reading series. She holds a BA in English, and her writing can be found in Pathos Literary Magazine, The Sunflower Collective, Entropy Magazine, and The Portland Metrozine. Her current work includes a children’s book and a hybrid-genre memoir.