Randle Browning is a writer and songwriter living in Brooklyn with her partner and young child. She is at work on a nonfiction book about mothers, ghosts, and four generations of Texans. Her writing has appeared or in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail, and Electric Literature. She will receive an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University in 2025. In 2011, she and her partner founded Shorty’s Pizza Shack in Waco, TX.