Alea's writing has been featured in Relief, Solum, Ekstasis, The Curator, Vita Poetica, Whale Road Review, and Art for the Isolated. In 2025 she will graduate with an MFA in Spiritual Writing from Seattle Pacific University. Alea is passionate about the relationship between creativity and prayer, which she explores in ministry at her church. She daylights as a copywriter at a marketing firm. You can follow her writerly escapades on Instagram at @alea_peister and Substack at aleapeister.substack.com.