Blair is a queer, Japanese American writer and educator half from the American South and half from the Midwest. She is the author of Emergence (Bottlecap Press). Her fiction and nonfiction have been selected as prizewinners by Rebecca Makkai and Justin Torres and have appeared in American Short Fiction, The Sun, The Masters Review Anthology, and Moon City Review, among other places. Her scripts have won first place in Scriptapalooza’s Television Writing Competition, have placed as finalist in ScreenCraft’s Short Film Screenplay Contest, and have progressed in Austin Film Festival’s short screenplay competition. They have also spent time on The Black List’s 2021 Top List and the Red List’s top one percent. Her story collection, essays, and other work have received finalist positions for numerous awards, including the PANK book contest, the C&R Press Fiction Award, the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, the Robert and Adele Schiff Award, the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, and multiple honorable mentions from Glimmer Train.

Blair has worked as a journalist, editor, advisor, and book coach and has taught creative writing, journalism, literature, composition, and communication courses. She received her MA from the University of Toledo and her MFA from NC State University. She has a broader interest in studies within the humanities, including concepts of community, climate, and care, as well as interests in community-engaged and public-facing work.