Wren Hanks is the author of Lily-livered (Driftwood Press), winner of the Adrift Chapbook Contest, and The Rise of Genderqueer (Brain Mill Press). An alum of the Tin House Workshop and the Lambda Writer's Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, his recent writing appears in Foglifter, No Tokens, RHINO, The Journal, and elsewhere. He is the poetry editor for smoke and mold, and lives in Brooklyn, where he works in animal rights.