Ayden LeRoux is a queer writer, artist, critic, and educator from New England. Once upon a time she attended culinary school, worked as a cheesemaker on a goat farm, and studied to become a somm. Now she writes fiction and nonfiction exploring embodiment, eroticism, and illness, in order to complicate narratives about caretaking, gender, sexuality, and family structures. Her praxis is informed by experience in artist collectives, worker-owned cooperatives, and farming and seeks to cultivate radical hospitality, generosity, and intimacy.

Ayden is a Contributing Editor for BOMB, and writes freelance criticism about art and literature pertaining to topics like sexuality, disability, intimacy, cancer, and food. Her work has been published in BOMB, Bookforum, Catapult, Electric Lit, Entropy, Guernica, Lit Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Rumpus, and was honored as Notable in Best American Essays 2021. She has received support from MA Cultural Council, MASS MoCA, Cité internationale des arts, Bread Loaf, Tin House, LMCC, A-Z West, the ACE Hotel, and the Alaskan Parks & Recreation Dept.