Zabe Bent is a Black, Jamaican New Yorker living between Atlanta and Lisbon. She writes essays, family sagas, and speculative fiction. Zabe works as a city planner and transport engineer, with a focus on safe, sustainable, equitable urban mobility. Her writing has appeared in Breathe FIYAH, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Audacity. She currently balances design and policy work with studies toward a PhD, while refining her debut novel.