Brian Lin is a doctoral candidate at USC in creative writing and literature. He has attended the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and the VONA Summer Workshop. He was a resident at Ragdale and The Cabins and a fellow at the Community of Writers Workshop and the Writing by Writers Workshop. His stories and essays can be found in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, The Margins, Lambda Literary, Hyphen Magazine, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Brian is working on a memoir-in-essays and seeking representation for his novel. Follow him on Instagram at @briantheory.

INSIGHT

My Body, Ms. Bey, LV

By BRIAN LIN

It should cost a billion to look this good—to look this much like yourself, ever changing.