Red Jordan Arobateau (1943-2021) was a prolific fiction writer, poet, playwright, diarist, and visual artist. Born in Chicago, Arobateau lived the majority of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the author of Time Also Will Make It Interesting: Selected Journals (Nightboat, 2026).

Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of three collections of poetry: Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016), Dispatch (Persea Books, 2019), and An Optimism (Persea Books, 2025). Cameron’s creative work can be found in POETRY, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere, and has been supported by fellowships from Cave Canem, The Watering Hole, and the Lannan Foundation.

Cameron’s critical/scholarly writing can be found, among other places, in Signs, Trans Studies Quarterly, and American Quarterly. His book The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (Duke University Press, 2022) was awarded the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies and the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for best book in LGBTQ literature and cultural studies. His most recent project, Time Also Will Make It Interesting (Nightboat, 2026), is an edited volume of the journals of writer/painter Red Jordan Arobateau.

Presently, Cam is the creative writer editor for Feminist Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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S.A. Mireles is a physician and author based in San Francisco. Their writing explores the speculative and the strange through a trans and non-binary lens. Their opinion has been published in The Advocate, and they have been a featured reader in the “writers without borders” section of LitQuake. They are currently seeking representation for their debut novel, Zebrafish, a wild romp into a not so distant future where the ability to change sex is both miracle and menace.

Bee Morris is a Black queer poet living in San Francisco. They are the author of a chapbook, Notes on Qualia (Bottlecap Press, 2023), and many published and unpublished poems.

Diana Cage became friends with Red Jordan Arobateau through years of publishing his work in On Our Backs magazine. She is a writer, editor, and scholar whose work explores queer sexuality, feminist culture, and how technology shapes our intimate lives. She is the author of several books on sex and relationships and former host of The Diana Cage Show on SiriusXM.

Elias is a confident, compassionate poet with lots of love to give.