Melissa Hunter Gurney is a Brooklyn based writer, educator and curator. She is the co-founder of GAMBA Forest, a community art space and literary lounge in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and Black Land Ownership, a grassroots organization put in place to combat systemic oppression around property in the Americas. Her work tends to explore the multi-faceted experiences of Pan-American women and artists and can be found in various publications including: The Yale Review, Pank, Post Road Magazine, Great Weather for Media, The Opiate, Breadcrumbs, Paris Lit Up, Brilliant Short Fiction and Across the Margin.