Monica Uszerowicz is a writer, editor, and photographer born in Brooklyn, raised in Fort Lauderdale, and based in Miami. She is the daughter of both the Ashkenazi Jewish and the Afro-Puerto Rican diasporas. Her work has been published in Artforum, The Believer, Bomb, Burnaway, Deem Journal, Foundwork, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere, and her photographs have been exhibited throughout the U.S. and internationally. She was previously the senior editor at Cultured and a writing mentor with O, Miami’s Greenhouse project. In 2020, she received an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her project, Groundwater, an ongoing series of essays about Floridian and Caribbean artists whose work addresses — or attempts to mitigate — instances of environmental injustice and the effects of the climate crisis.