Kortney Nash (she/her) grew up in South Los Angeles and presently resides in the Jersey suburbs. Kort received her bachelors of arts from University of California, Berkeley with a major in interdisciplinary studies where she focused on child development and education policy. With her minor she pursued creative writing, and she now engages in all of these disciplines by working in children’s publishing.

When not editing books at work, Kort can be found writing. She has short stories featured in The Black Girl Survives in This One (Flatiron Books 2023), What Rides at Night (Microcosm Publishing 2025), and Afrofuturism Short Stories (Flametree

Publishing 2025). Her debut picture book, Tell Me About Juneteenth, came out in 2025.