Christy Lorio is an artist with a practice in photography and writing. Her photographs and writing often address the concepts of loss, self-identity, illness and feeing at home within the body through self-portraits, medical scans, family photos, and landscapes made near her childhood home as a way to express what it's like to live with stage IV colorectal cancer under the shadow of her father dying from the same disease. Her work has been exhibited at Auburn Art Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Millepiani Exhibition Space (Rome, Italy), The Ogden Museum (New Orleans, LA) and has been seen at Photo NOLA and Atlanta Celebrates Photography. Her photographs have been published in Vice News, In These Times and Analogue Forever Magazine, among others places. Christy’s writing has appeared in publications such as Pelican Bomb, Oxford American, Very Local New Orleans, The Times-Picayune, Entropy Magazine, and other places. In 2021, she was selected as a fellow for Arizona State University's Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans, where she is working on her MFA in Studio Art. She is currently a freelance writer for Ochsner Health, works as a social media manager for Elysian Seafood, is a teaching assistant at UNO, and does headshots as well as journalism assignments for select clients.