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  • Jerry Portwood

    Jerry Portwood is the founder of The Queer Love Project, which explores LGBTQ+ stories about relationships. He was a top editor at Rolling Stone, Out magazine, and New York Press. He's a longtime instructor at the New School's writing program.

  • Asha Dore

    I'm a speech-pathologist, editor, and writer. Recent essays have appeared in Vogue, Washington Post, McSweeneys, Gulf Coast, New York Magazine, and elsewhere. I'm the founder and host of the literary interview podcast, Totally Biased Reviews.

  • Byron Flitsch

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  • Michael Narkunski

    Author of “Macaroni Heart” forthcoming from University of Wisconsin Press (3.16.27) and coeditor of The Queer Love Project.

  • Wayne Scott

    My debut memoir, THE MAPS THEY GAVE US (Black Lawrence, 2025), was shortlisted for both the Oregon Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award. Writer, teacher, & psychotherapist in Portland, Oregon. www.waynescottwrites.com/

  • Carmen Cusido

    Carmen Cusido's writing has been featured on Oprah Daily, Newsweek, NBC, NPR, and other media. She is mental-health advocate living in Northern New Jersey.

  • Steve Majors

    Former NBC News producer turned Chief Comms Officer. I've spent my career in control rooms, crisis war rooms and c suites watching leaders forge their voice in moments that tested them most. Off Script is about what those moments taught them and me.

  • Sandy

    A man of trans experience, going through some trans experiences. This is NOT my typical theater stuff, it's more musings and nerdery about gender. Also, if you're my family or something, maybe don't read the spicy ones?

  • Rodrigo Dos Reis

    \ud83c\udf08Brazilian writing Poems exploring urban perception, desire, and decay through poetry. My work turns cities like into fragmented mirrors of inner experience, where light, absence, and memory blur into shifting states of vision.

  • Riley M. Hollars

    poet, writer, editor, designer MA JMU ‘26

  • Gen Greer

    Gen Greer (she/her) is a dog lover, runner, and slasher enthusiast. She’s dedicated the last few years of her life to writing a queer survivor-centered reimagining of Lolita from the perspective of Dolores Haze. Instagram: @doloresneverlolita

  • Elizabeth Jaeger

    Stolen: Love and Loss in the Time of COVID-19 is Elizabeth Jaeger's first book. Her essays, short stories, book reviews and poetry have been published in various print and online journals. You can find her at: www.elizabethjaegerauthor.com.

  • Ellis Scott

    Author of Night Terminus ellisscott.ca

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