Samuel Ace is a trans and genderqueer poet and sound artist, author most recently of Our Weather Our Sea (Black Radish Books) and Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in Three Days Don’t Wash (Belladonna* Germinal Texts). He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writers and Firecracker Alternative Book awards, as well as a Lambda Literary Award. Recent work can be found in Poetry, PEN America, Best American Experimental Poetry, and many other journals and anthologies. He teaches poetry and creative writing at Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts.