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Alex Alberto
they/them/elle
Alex is a queer and polyamorous storyteller and educator. They grew up in Montreal and currently live in upstate New York, with their partner, metamour, and step-kids. Their essays have been published in Huffington Post, Write or Die Magazine, and elsewhere, and their plays have been featured at Dixon Place and Theatre Row in New York City. They received a 2023 Delaware County Arts Grant, a New York State Council on the Arts regrant program, to teach creative nonfiction to LGBTQIA+ folks in Upstate NY.
Alex’s genre-blending memoir, titled Entwined: Essays on Polyamory and Creating Home, was published with Quilted Press in February 2024. They are now at work on their second book.
You can connect with Alex on Instagram, and learn more about their work at alexalberto.com.
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Mia Arias Tsang
she/her
Mia Arias Tsang is a writer and freelance editor based in New York City. Her work explores themes of queer desire, intimacy, and disconnect. A Tin House Summer Workshop alum, her work has appeared in Autostraddle, Copy, Half Mystic Press, Fatal Flaw Magazine, and Broad Recognition Magazine, among others. She is a copy editor for the literary magazine Identity Theory and program manager at the literary nonprofit House of SpeakEasy, and writes a newsletter called Overripe Peach. She lives in Queens with her cat, Peanut, and is currently working on a novel.
Her first book, FRAGMENTS OF WASTED DEVOTION, is forthcoming in 2025 with Quilted Press.
You can find Mia on Instagram, and learn more about her work at miatsang.com.
Levi Wells
he/they
Levi Wells is a trans multimedia artist and poet. His textile and illustrative works are devoted to real and unreal creatures, 2000's cartoons, and our changing human bodies. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his partner and two cats.
Levi’s illustrations will be featured in FRAGMENTS OF WASTED DEVOTION by Mia Arias Tsang, forthcoming with Quilted Press in 2025.
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K.G. Strayer
they/them
K.G. Strayer is a transmasc nonbinary writer and artist from Kalamazoo, Michigan and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They have an MFA in poetry from The University of Pittsburgh. They write and live across genre, often as a barista by day. Their poems have appeared in Yemassee Journal and Carve Magazine, with new work forthcoming in Jelly Bucket and Superstition Review.
K.G.’s memoir, titled Stellar Nursery: On My (Trans) Body and My Choice, was published by Quilted Press in February 2024.
Connect with K.G. on Instagram, or find out more at kgstrayer.com