Mazzy Sleep is an 11-year-old from Toronto, Canada, who began writing during the pandemic. She has written over a thousand poems and short stories, as well as a novel and two feature screenplays. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rattle,The Minnesota Review, Barren Magazine, Geist, Maudlin House, Jellyfish Review, Queen’s Quarterly, and elsewhere. Mazzy was commissioned by the Lunar Codex project to write a poem that will be launched to the moon via the Nova-C IM-1 mission in 2023 and the Griffin/VIPER mission in 2024. mazzysleep.com