Liv Kane is a writer and filmmaker interested in exploring the intersections between community storytelling, ecology, and food systems. She served as the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at the San Antonio Public Library and received the New York Life Award for her work in 2019. A graduate of Kenyon College and a recipient of the George B. Ogden Award, she published her first essay collection, Gulfwater, with Sunset Press in Spring 2021. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa, where she is an Iowa Arts Fellow.