About the Author
Aiden Arata is a writer and artist whose writing has appeared in publications including BOMB, Mask, NYLON, The Rumpus, The Fanzine, Wonderland, Hobart, and others, as well as NDA: An Autofiction Anthology (Archways Editions 2022). Arata’s visual and video work was showcased in Kunsthalle Bremen’s bicentennial exhibition “Generation*. Jugend trotz(t) Krise” (Bremen, Germany, 2023) and has been featured on platforms including Vice, The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar, Mashable, NBC,Seventeen, and The Washington Post. YOU HAVE A NEW MEMORY is her first essay collection. She lives in Los Angeles and on the internet as @aidenarata.