Colette Reed (she/her) is a coward trying very hard to be brave, and queer punk from California. She makes comics, clothes, poems, prints, tattoos, and essays. Her work has appeared in Vagabond City Lit, Chinquapin, and Kingfisher Magazine, and is forthcoming in a volume from Rutgers University Press. She is an editor-in-chief of Chinquapin Literary Magazine. She loves Nan Goldin, serious movies, and inventing new constellations. You can find her at your local punk show, or at colettereed.com.