Liv Kane is a writer and filmmaker originally from San Antonio, Texas. Her work has appeared in Fourth Genre, River Teeth Journal, The Rumpus, and Reckoning Magazine, and her first essay collection, Gulfwater, was published with Sunset Press in Spring 2021. She is currently at work on her second book of nonfiction, which explores the intersections between community storytelling, ecology, and food systems. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow.