Coby-Dillon English (he/she/they) is a short story writer and essayist from the Great Lakes. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, they currently are an MFA fiction candidate and Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where they teach writing and serve as the editor-in-chief and nonfiction editor for Meridian. They were a 2021 Periplus Collective fellow, and their writing can be found in Salt Hill Journal, Bellingham Review, Peripress Anthology, and LitHub.