gabija tonkunas is a lithuanian-american writer and filmmaker.

she is currently working on her short film, metanoia, and an essay on roblox for aeon’s psyche.

her work has been peer-review and published in asap/j and the journal of literature and science. she previously worked as a strategy consultant at deloitte and holds a ba in economics from nyu and vanderbilt.

she is interested in ancient, medieval, and baltic cultures, with emphasis on taoism, classical languages, and pagan traditions; in literature and philosophy, particularly the works of franz kafka, ursula k. le guin, and the philosophy of emotion; and in the aesthetics of the strange, including soviet-era animation, experimental theatre, gouache painting, dungeons & dragons, and theoretical and artistic representations of the uncanny, the taboo, and the sublime.

she is also a ryt-200 yogi, volleyball player and coach, and is working on her ncsa-cpt. she manages endometriosis and autoimmune disease. she lives in manhattan with her partner corey and their standard poodle, inky.