Masha Shukovich, PhD, MFA is an award-winning writer, poet, storyteller, folklorist, teacher, and intuitive chef with ancestry and indigenous roots in the Balkans the Mediterranean and West, Central, and Northeast Asia (Siberia). She is the mother of Maya and Leela, a demigirl (she/they), a neurodivergent person, and an immigrant from a country that no longer exists. She lives on Utah trails and online at mashashukovich.com.