Ari Koontz is a queer nonbinary writer, a serious pasta enthusiast, and an editor of Wizards in Space Magazine, currently living in a den of Hufflepuffs in Providence, RI. In poetry and prose, Ari grapples with identity, truth, and the sheer beauty of the universe; zir work has been published in Wizards in Space and also some other (not-as-cool) literary magazines. You can find them on Twitter @arioctober.