Mariah Gese

Mariah Gese is an artist and writer from a haunted swamp in New York. They received their MFA from Indiana University, where they were the editor-in-chief of Indiana Review. Their work appears in The Rumpus, Black Warrior Review, the Adroit Journal, Split Lip Magazine, Lunch Ticket, Speculative Nonfiction, and elsewhere. They recently won the 2025 Hayden’s Ferry Review Fiction Contest for a choose-your-own-adventure story. They like plants, math, and other scary things.