Jillian Luft is a Florida native currently living in Brooklyn. She writes about illness and death, mothers and daughters, pop culture and Florida, bodies and desire. Her work has appeared in Hobart, Booth, X-R-A-Y, The Forge Literary Magazine and many other publications. She is currently working on a memoir about caregiving for her terminally ill mother as a preteen. Her debut novel, Scumbag Summer, will be released via House of Vlad Press in June 2024.