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Fiction:
Kyle Lukoff
Hannah Szabó
Taiwana Shambley
Nonfiction:
Kaia Ball
Fayth Tan
Poetry:
Andrea Abi-Karam
Noa Micaela Fields
Teen editorial intern:
The Pelicanne
News:
Soleil Ho
Advice Columnist:
Daniel Lavery
Reviews:
Addie Tsai
Art Director:
Sol Yael Weiss
Managing Editor:
Jacob Romm
Andrea Abi-Karam is a trans, SWANA, punk poet-performer cyborg, workshop facilitator, and activist. With Kay Gabriel, they co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. They have published two books of poetry: Extratransmission and Villainy.
Noa Micaela Fields is a trans poet with hearing aids. She is the author of E (Nightboat Books) and public programs curator at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago.
Kaia Ball crafts fiction with a scientist's attention, nonfiction with an artist's panache, and poetry as a love story to life itself. Their poetry, essays, and speculative fiction have been published in Electric Literature, Snowflake Magazine, New Reader Magazine, & beyond.
Soleil Ho is a cultural critic and food writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. They have hosted two podcasts: Extra Spicy and Racist Sandwich.
Daniel Lavery is a writer and trans man living with his partners Grace and Lily, their son Rocco, and two small dogs in California. He is the author of several books, including Something that May Shock and Discredit You and Women's Hotel, and headed Slate's advice column and podcast Dear Prudence from 2016 to 2021.
Kyle Lukoff is the author of many books for young readers, including Too Bright To See and When Aidan Became A Brother. His book Call Me Max has been banned in schools across the country. Kyle has forthcoming books about history, unicycles, breakups, and lots of other topics. While becoming a writer he worked as a bookseller and librarian.
Jacob Romm is a graduate student studying transness in history and literature from the 15th to 18th century. He also translates poetry from French and Yiddish and makes letterpress prints at Letter and Spirit Press. Jacob had the idea of founding Chrysalis after working with trans youth at a summer camp.
A Black trans woman with disabilities, Taiwana Shambley is a speculative fiction writer and award-winning teaching artist from St. Paul, Minnesota’s North End neighborhood. Guided by political anger, Taiwana’s mission is to empower queer, trans, and disabled youth voices, through both her writing and by facilitating storytelling skills for others. Sign up for her mailing list at taiwanashambley.com to be the first to hear about her debut novel and chapbook!
Hannah Szabó is a writer and a translator interested in bringing overlooked texts into contemporary conversations on gender and technology. In 2014, she was the first openly trans kid to attend a traditional sleepaway camp in the cabin of her affirmed gender. Hannah is involved in trans youth advocacy work in both Hungary and America.
Felyx Fayth Tan is an independent science writer and researcher based in Pasadena, CA. They write about the stories we tell ourselves about science— how we construct them, who gets to tell them, how our fears, anxieties, hopes and passions inexorably bleed into it. If they could be an animal, they’d be a lungfish because they like waking up to the sound of rain.
Addie Tsai is a writer and artist of color from Houston, Texas but now living and teaching in Richmond, Virginia. They are the author of the queer Asian young adult novel Dear Twin and the adult queer biracial Asian non-binary retelling of Frankenstein, Unwieldy Creatures.
Sol Yael Weiss is a visual artist and cultural organizer raised on Lisjan Ohlone lands in the Bay Area, California. Sol uses ritual, art, and song for healing and change at the intersections of land, justice and Jewish tradition. They also work as an artist, illustrator and graphic designer.
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THE PELIKANNE is a teenager on the trans spectrum of identities who lives with CPTSD and POTS and grew up low-income. The Pelikanne writes poetry and does film photography about her life experience, activism, and gentrification. You can often find her designing mutual aid zines with her Blåhaj, or sewing patches on her battle vest. She lives in Maine, where she is involved with local journalism and liberatory activism around queerness and disability.
