Writing the queer body

Nick White (he/him)

Nick White is the author of the novel How to Survive a Summer and the story collection Sweet and Low. He is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University's MFA Program in Creative Writing. His short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in a variety of places, including The Kenyon Review, Guernica, Catapult, The Hopkins Review, Indiana Review,The Literary Review, and Lit Hub.

C.T. Salazar (he/him)

C. T. Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. He's the author of Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking (Acre Books). He's the author of three chapbooks, most recently American Cavewall Sonnets (Bull City Press), and the 2020 recipient of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in poetry. His poems have appeared in The Rumpus, West Branch, Cincinnati Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Pleiades, 32 Poems, Denver Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. C. T. is currently a tenure track librarian at Delta State University.

S. Bear Bergman (he/him)

S. Bear Bergman is the author of nine books, founder of Flamingo Rampant press, and frequent consultant in equity and inclusion to business and government. Bear began his work in equity at the age of 15, as a founding member of the first ever Gay/Straight Alliance and has continued to help organizations and institutions move further along the pathways to justice ever since. Bear’s work in equity education has brought him to sporting arenas, field offices in actual fields, code-named government buildings in unplottable locations, and many unremarkable boardrooms in which great and lasting change has begun and continued. These days Bear spends his time making trans cultural competency interventions however he can and trying to avoid stepping on his children’s Lego.

Tyler Friend

[bio coming soon]