Ava Fedorov is a writer, artist, and art educator based in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is interested in the beautiful and the beautifully grotesque. Her publications include the chapbook, Book of Fears (UDP). Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in the US, and featured in The New Yorker and SCUK Magazine. She was named a 2019 distinguished scholar by the John Young Foundation. Ava holds a BFA in film from Bard College and is pursuing an MFA from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.