Naomi Skwarna is a Toronto-based writer and artist, having published in Hazlitt, The Hairpin, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Life, The Believer, and others. As an actor, she performed in Toronto and New York in Sheila Heti’s All Our Happy Days Are Stupid, and the Slamdance Festival prizewinning feature, Dim the Fluorescents. She currently works as a custom seamstress, and apprentices at Toronto’s Horses Atelier, learning about professional garment production.