Trace Ramsey is a recipient of the 2015 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Award in Literature, a 2015 contributor in non-fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and winner of the 2016 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize from the North Carolina Literary Review. Trace’s recent publications include essays in At Length Magazine, Hippocampus Magazine and I Don’t Know How to Help You, a compilation zine from Pioneers Press. In December 2014 Trace received a certificate in documentary arts in nonfiction writing from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Trace lives in Durham, N.C., with his partner and two children.