Bio

Aliza Pelto is a freelance writer and editor with bylines in Study Breaks Magazine, Alma, the National Organization for Women, and both in print and online at BUST Magazine. Her journalistic work focuses on examining politics and public policy, pop culture, literature, and history through an intersectional feminist lens.

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Pelto has written political explainers, comedic analyses of current events, pop culture listicles, in-depth book reviews, and explorations of women from throughout history. She has also conducted interviews with up-and-coming artists, millennial activists, and teen scientists. 

The writer's current passion project is the Little Sleep//Much Reading Podcast, a weekly web series she co-hosts alongside Marissa Belmonte where they discuss books on various themes across genres in a writerly way.

Pelto holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Writing and a minor in Literature from Pratt Institute, where she was a runner-up prize winner for the annual Charles Pratt Memorial Scholarship with her short story, "Nosebleeds." Most recently, her fiction was recognized by Five South Magazine, where novelist Kristen Arnett chose Pelto's "The Lobster Trap" for the magazine's 2021 Short Fiction Prize. She is based in Brooklyn, New York. 

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