Aurora Mattia

Bio

Aurora Mattia was born in Hong Kong, has lived in Brooklyn and elsewhere, and lives in Texas. Her writing has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, the Renaissance Society’s exhibition Nine Lives, on her Onlyfans, and in RISD Museum’s exhibition any distance between us She is a frequent collaborator with photographer Elle Pérez; their portraits of her have appeared in the Carnegie Museum, the Whitney Biennial, Aperture magazine, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, The Fifth Wound, has been put on must-read lists by Vulture, Nylon, BookRiot, The Millions and Ms. Magazine, and is now available from Nightboat Books. Her second book, a story and essay collection called Unsex Me Here, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press in Fall 2024.