fiction
Ariel Ranieri writes contemporary romantic comedies. She believes heroines can and should be as bossy, controlling and/or broody as the men they fall for.
When she’s not giggling over her own rom-coms, she’s busting out bizarre, dark miscellany and science fiction, an example of which has been published in the online magazine Rejection Letters. She also writes the blog memo:random, where she opines at irregular intervals about anything and nothing in particular.
She has completed three manuscripts (and started 28 others) and is currently querying CONTROL FREAK, a new take on Beauty and the Beast where both characters get to be Beauty and both characters get to be the Beast.
In her past life Ariel has written sonnets, slam poetry, spoken-word poetry, screenplays and science fiction (all of it bad). She attended the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and won second place for a science fiction story at the UW-Whitewater High School Creative Writing Festival (except that one, that was pretty good).
She is a Chicagolander by birth and a Traverse City resident by pandemic. In her free time, she enjoys biking, rollerblading, gin martinis and anything involving water.