ace round table

Angela Chen (she/her)

Angela Chen is a senior editor at Wired Magazine, where she oversees the ideas section. Previously, she was a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal, Vox Media's The Verge, and MIT Technology Review. She is the author of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR, Electric Literature, and Them. Her reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Aeon Magazine, Paris Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, Lapham's Quarterly, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and more.

Max Hunt (he/him)

Max Hunt is a queer, trans, and neurodivergent writer native to Mississippi. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in One Teen Story, Polyphony Lit, Otherwise Engaged, Outcast Magazine, and others. In his free time, Max likes to draw, play guitar, and collect unusual items that range from a Renaissance lute to rare lichens. Max attends the University of Mississippi as an undergraduate.

Joshua Nguyen (he/him)

Joshua Nguyen is the author of American Lục Bát for My Mother (Bull City Press, 2021) and Come Clean (University of Wisconsin Press), winner of the 2021 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. He is a Vietnamese-American writer, a collegiate national poetry slam champion (CUPSI), and a native Houstonian. He has received fellowships from Kundiman, Tin House, Sundress Academy For The Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. He is a bubble tea connoisseur, loves a good pun, and is a PhD student at The University of Mississippi, where he also received his MFA.

Kim Kotel (she/her)

Kim Kotel is a PhD candidate in the English Department at the University of Mississippi with a graduate minor in gender studies. She has an MA in English and MFA in Creative Writing from Chapman University. Both of her master’s theses explore sexuality, the former investigating the relationship between sexuality and genre play/hybridity, and the latter constructing a web of character relationships that elude straightforward categorization. Her current interests involve tracing asexual impulses and the effects of compulsory sexuality in late Victorian and modernist literature.