C.R. Calabria is a writer and military brat raised between Hawai’i and southern Alabama. Preoccupations of his include health + the body, labor, money, medical studies, race, the South, online conspiracies, and Reddit subcultures. A finalist for the 2025 Ninth Letter Literary Awards, Cory’s writing has been supported by the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, where he is now a panelist. Cory’s work appears or is forthcoming in Brevity, Pit, and New Delta Review, and he’s working on a book about human research subjects. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.