Kym Ragusa is a writer and filmmaker. She is the author of the memoir The Skin Between Us, and her essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and in the anthologies The Milk Of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture, About Face: Women Write About What They See When They Look in the Mirror,  and Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo. Her current work centers on urban nature and climate writing, disability and neurodiversity, and maternal mental health. She currently teaches writing courses on the contemporary essay; nature and environmental issues; gender and myth; and intersectionality, neurodiversity, and disability in Women’s and Gender Studies and Comparative Media Studies/Writing.