Gar’s first novel, Sin Against the Race (gamr books, 2017) was listed on The Advocate’s Best Books We Read in 2018: LGBTQ Novels. His short stories, Tom of Boalt Hall and The Necklace were finalists in the Saints and Sinners LGBTQ Festival Fiction Open in 2020 and 2022, respectively. His fiction has also appeared in S... Read More →

Achy Obejas is the author of the forthcoming The Boy Kingdom/El reino de los varones, a bilingual collection of prose poems that offers a meditation on queer motherhood and raising sons. She also authored Boomerang/Bumerán, a bilingual collection of poetry written in a mostly... Read More →

Elizabeth Stark is the author of a novel, Shy Girl (FSG), and co-writer/ director of a few films, including FtF: female to femme (an imaginative documentary) and Little Mutinies (a narrative short), both distributed by Frameline. She writes reviews and interviews for The Rumpus. Elizabeth... Read More →

Katherine Agyemaa Agard is the eldest daughter of a zoologist and a botanist. At 18, she won, and declined, an Open National Scholarship in the Natural Sciences from the government of Trinidad & Tobago. Her interdisciplinary work is rooted in painting, performance, and writing. She... Read More →

Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s eighth novel, TELL THE REST, received starred reviews in both Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews, and the New York Times said her work “triumphs as an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances.” Her fiction has won a California... Read More →

Angie Powers, an award-winning filmmaker and writer, runs Willows Workshop and this summer’s Cinema of Summer filmmaking for middle and high schoolers, and more. Her first feature, Lost in the Middle, won Best Feature a the Broad Humor 2019 Festival, and was a Festival Favorite... Read More →