Aria Braswell is a native Texan set loose in New York City and writer of the weird and wild.

Her debut novel, Box Girls, was published on April 23, 2025 with LIMIT ZERO Publications, and distributed by University of Hell Press.

Her humor and short fiction has appeared both online and in print in McSweeney’s, The Belladonna Comedy, Five on the Fifth, Sortes, Dark Recesses Press, Dark Lanes and elsewhere.

With a prolific background in the performing arts, Aria has worked on Broadway and across the United States as an actor, teacher, director and composer. She is on the editorial team for Sortes Magazine, a surrealist fiction publication, based out of Philadelphia. You can also catch her musical improv team performing weekly at the Magnet Theater’s Musical Megawatt.

She is a graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.