Omaria Sanchez Pratt (they/them) is a writer from North Carolina. They received an M.F.A. from the University of Kentucky where they were a recipient of the 2018 Nikky Finney Fellowship. They have received fellowships from Tin House, Community of Writers, Periplus Mentorship Collective, Kimbilio for Black Fiction, Lambda Literary, and more.

Their fiction can be found in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers Volume 12, the 2023 Emerge Anthology, The Greensboro Review (forthcoming), Story Magazine, and they have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Omaria lives in Durham where they teach writing workshops and is completing a postgraduate program in teaching creative writing with the University of Cambridge.