Audrey Dae Bush hails from rural river town Washington, Missouri and graduated summa cum laude with a BA in English from the University of Missouri - Columbia (2023). Her creative fiction writing leans speculative, focusing on contemporary social issues like gender and generational relations. Her research engages with ecocriticism and psychology. Bush interns at The Missouri Review as assistant contest editor, fiction reader, and social media manager, and she’s copy edited for The Maneater and EPIC (MU’s undergraduate literary magazine). She assists with Columbia’s annual Unbound Book Festival as a panel moderator and event volunteer. When she’s not writing, Bush works as a studio violin and music teacher based in Columbia.