Azia Archer is a writer and artist based in Minnesota, USA. Guided by an attunement to emotional resonance and the quiet wisdom of the natural world, she crafts narratives that illuminate the complexities of the human experience. Her work weaves together themes of resilience, loss, and love; seeking to draw connections between individual stories and the shared journey of being alive on planet earth.

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 author of the poetry collection Atoms and Evers (dancinggirlpress), and her work has appeared in more than seventy-five journals and anthologies over the past decade. She is also the editor and curator of Root Smoke, an online literary journal that publishes work that lives at the intersection of the grounded and the fleeting—pieces rooted in what nourishes, yet willing to drift into what lingers.

Beyond the page, Azia is equally devoted to her artistic practices— painting, crafting, and working with the natural world. Gardening and herbalism ground her in rhythm with the seasons, while also inspiring her creative work with their quiet 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, inviting audiences to journey alongside her.

Most recently, Azia completed and is now querying what she hopes will be her debut novel, Small Birds: a lyrical work of upmarket 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 novella. Dream Date is an unsettling tale about loneliness, celebrity worship, and the algorithms that promise to love us back.