Azia Archer is a writer and artist based in Minnesota, USA. Her work explores grief, love, and memory, often lingering in the space where reality begins to shift, weaving together themes of resilience and loss while tracing the connections between individual stories and the shared experience of being alive.

She is the author of the poetry collection Atoms and Evers (dancinggirlpress), with work appearing in more than eighty journals and anthologies. Azia writes from lived experience and careful attention to the world around her, shaping a voice that lingers with empathy and invites reflection. Her work asks readers to look inward while also noticing the extraordinary tucked inside the ordinary.

She is the editor and curator of Root Smoke, an online literary journal that publishes work from both emerging and established voices. Root Smoke has become a community shaped by curiosity, care, and a shared love of language and the arts. It is currently ranked #23 in Rising in Fiction on Substack.

Beyond the page, Azia is equally devoted to her artistic practices and working with the natural world. Gardening and herbalism ground her in rhythm with the seasons, while also inspiring her creative work with their lessons in patience, renewal, and transformation. Whether through fiction, poetry, visual art, or the living canvas of the earth, her passion for exploring emotional landscapes is ever-present.

Most recently, Azia completed and is now querying what she hopes will be her debut novel, Small Birds: a lyrical work of women’s fiction with literary and magical realism elements. It explores the afterlife of grief, the doubleness of love, and the fragile seam between memory and possibility.

She has now begun work on her second book, revisiting a short story she once penned, Dream Date, and expanding it into a novel. Dream Date is an unsettling tale about loneliness, celebrity worship, and the algorithms that promise to love us back.