Author

Grace Plowden was born and raised in the UK. She now lives in New York, where she’s

pursuing an MFA in nonfiction at Columbia University. Her essay “Naff: A Rumination on

Taste and Tastelessness” was a runner-up for the 2022 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize.

Plowden received a first-class degree in English literature from Trinity College Dublin,

where she was awarded Trinity’s Gold Medal.