Anika Bennett (she/her) was born and raised in Boise, Idaho and spent her childhood riding her bike in her grandparent’s backyard, along the Boise River Greenbelt, and in Idaho’s Sawtooth Forest. She graduated from Boise State University in 2023 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Nonfiction. Her writing centers around gender, natural history, and bicycles. Her upcoming self-printed zine, “The Bimbo’s Guide to Bicycle Mechanics,” braids personal narratives with bicycle history and gender's influence on her experience as a feminine person working in an often hyper-masculine industry.