Ariana D. Den Bleyker is a Pittsburgh native currently residing in upstate New York, a wife, mother of two, a writer and an editor. When she's not editing or writing, she's spending time with her family and every once in a while sleeps.

She is the author of several poetry chapbooks and collections, the novelette, Finger : Knuckle : Palm and the experimental memoir, prosthesis.

She is the founder of ELJ Publications, a small press specializing in the author, and editor-in-chief of Emerge Literary Journal, scissors & spackle and The J.J. Outre Review, among others.