Ellice Lueders (she/her) is a nonfiction writer and food and labor reporter whose work has appeared in High Country News, The Guardian, The Economist and the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, where she was a celebrated food critic for several years. Her awards include a Fulbright Teaching Assistant Grant and the Arizona Newspaper Association Award for Best Feature. She graduated from Bowdoin College in 2018, and received her MFA from Columbia School of the Arts in 2026. From the southwest, she now lives in Brooklyn and is at work on her first book, a collection of unconventional intimacies.