Nona Lea's writing leans to weird, haunting, grotesque, and surrealist, influenced by Southern Gothic, childhood trauma, ecology, and a neurodivergent mindscape. In the same vein as Laurie Halse Anderson, Ocean Vuong, Franny Choi, and Katherine Dunn, they’re passionate about poetry featuring narratives based upon regaining voice, autonomy, familial trauma and history, both autobiographical and drawn from modern tales and mythology. They have been published in over 13 publications in literary magazines and volumes and work as an editor for Mulberry Literary and Vial of Bones Zine. Melodia is their debut poetry book.

You can find more about Lea through their website: https://nonaleacom.wordpress.com/