Celeste Amidon is a 2026-27 Fine Arts Work Center Fiction Fellow, and the winner of the 2025 New Ohio Review Ellis Prize for Fiction. Her work appears in Gulf Coast, Polyester, Broad Sound Journal, Rose Books, Six Stories a Semester, and is forthcoming in Ploughshares. She was selected as a semi-finalist for the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, long listed for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards and the Hope Prize, and selected as a finalist for the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize. She is a graduate of the Boston University Fiction MFA, where she was selected as the recipient of the Florence Engel Randall Graduate Fiction Award.