Michi Trota is the features editor at Prism. As an essayist and speaker, Michi often focuses on exploring issues of identity, culture, community, representation, and social justice through analyzing and deconstructing narratives around pop culture and food. She is a five-time Hugo Award winner and a British Fantasy Award winner. She is the first Filipina to win a Hugo Award and the first person of color to hold the role of Editor-in-Chief of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

Michi is based in Chicago, where she lives with her husband and two cats, and also works as a fire performance artist. Follow her on Twitter @GeekMelange.