Torrey Peters (top left) is the author of the novel Detransition, Baby, published by One World/Random House as well as the novellas Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker. She also holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth. Torrey rides a pink motorcycle and splits her time between Brooklyn and an off-grid cabin in Vermont. For the past few years, Torrey has been part of a trans literary movement based on trans people sharing their work among each other without barriers.

Brontez Purnell (top right) is a writer, musician, dancer, filmmaker, and performance artist. He is the author of a graphic novel, a novella, a children’s book, and the novel Since I Laid My Burden Down. Recipient of a 2018 Whiting Award for Fiction, he was named one of the 32 Black Male Writers for Our Time by T: New York Times Style Magazine in 2018. Purnell is also the frontman for the band the Younger Lovers, the co-founder of the experimental dance group the BrontezPurnell Dance Company, the creator of the renowned cult zine Fag School, and the director of several short films, music videos, and, most recently, the documentary Unstoppable Feat: Dances of Ed Mock. Born in Triana, Alabama, he’s lived in Oakland, California, for over 18 years.

Jackie Ess (bottom left) is the author of Darryl (CLASH, May 2021), a writer in several forms and under several heteronyms, unified for the moment. So far, her writing has appeared in the Vetch, The New Inquiry, the Zahir, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, Peach Mag, and of course Twitter (@jackie_ess), to name a few highlights. Darryl is her first novel.

Check out or preorder her novel, Darryl, here or here.

Max Steele (bottom right) is a writer and artist in New York who makes text-based music and performance. He makes the zines Scorcher, Door Girls and HP Magazine and wrote the blog and hosted the reading series FAG CITY from 2006-2017. He was a resident artist at BAX/Brooklyn Artist Exchange and performed at the New Museum, Joe’s Pub, PPOW, Dixon Place, the Knitting Factory, La MAMA, the Poetry Project, and the Queens Museum of Art. He is a junior prose editor at A Gathering of the Tribes, and his newest project is the poetry zine EPSILON b/w VALENCE.

Check it out here.

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