Anesce Dremen is a U.S. writer and educator often found with a tea cup in hand, traveling between the U.S., China, and India. She ran away and became estranged from her abusive family to pursue education as a first generation, low income college student. Anesce has lived in China and India for 5 years and has been supported by Fulbright, Critical Language Scholarship and Gilman Scholarship. Anesce’s work is published by or forthcoming in Longreads, Stillhouse Press, SPAN Magazine, Persephone’s Daughters, and Tea Journey, among others. She is a MFA creative writing student at UNLV and is working on her first memoir. AnesceDremen.com

Photograph courtesy of a collaboration with Balvinder Singh