Trace Peterson is a scholar and poet. Author of “Since I Moved In” (Chax Press) and several new forthcoming books of poems, she is also known as Editor/Publisher of the Lammy-winning press EOAGH Books, and as Co-Editor of the anthology “Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics” (Nightboat Books). She most recently co-edited “Arrive on Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott” (Chax Press). Her recent poetry and criticism appear in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, PEN America, The Academy of American Poets (poets.org), and Boston Review. She currently teaches Transgender Cultural Production at Yale in WGSS.
Samuel Ace is a trans/genderqueer poet, sound artist, photographer and teacher. He has published three collections of poetry: “Normal Sex”, “Home in three days. Don’t wash.”, and most recently, “Stealth”, co-authored with poet Maureen Seaton. A Yale graduate, he is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, two-time finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Poetry, winner of the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund Award in Poetry, The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in poetry. He was also a recent finalist for the National Poetry Series. His work has been widely anthologized. His first two books will be republished by the Belladonna* Cooperative in 2018. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Mount Holyoke College. His work can be found at www.samuelace.com.
Sam Huber is a second-year graduate student in English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale and a books columnist for Feministing.com.