Wren Hanks is the author of Lily-livered (Driftwood Press), winner of the Adrift Chapbook Contest, and The Rise of Genderqueer (Brain Mill Press). He is an alum of the Tin House Workshop and the Lambda Writer's Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, and he was recently awarded a 2026 Vermont Studio Center residency. His recent writing appears or is forthcoming in Diode, Foglifter, No Tokens, The Journal, and elsewhere. He is the managing editor for smoke and mold and lives in Brooklyn, where he works in animal advocacy. You can find more of his writing on Instagram at @wrenhanks or at wrenhanks.com.