For whom do we become malleable? When do we break? When do we bend? These are some of the questions being asked and explored by 12 writers who were invited to respond, react to, be in conversation with drawings from Laylah Ali's Studies series.They wrote back in micro-fictions, creative nonfiction, poems, and pieces that ignore boundaries of genre.Bending features written work by Victoria Chang, Caro De Robertis, Julian Delgado Lopera, Jaquira Díaz, Patricia Engel, Courtney Faye Taylor, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Chinelo Okparanta, Shana L. Redmond, Lilliam Rivera, and Alejandro Varela.