Jill Dearman is the author of eight books, including SUPER-POWERED ASTROLOGY (W.W. Norton) and QUEER ASTROLOGY FOR MEN and QUEER ASTROLOGY FOR WOMEN (both from St. Martins). Her true crime novel JAZZED was named one of the top Indie Historical Fiction books of 2022 by Kirkus. She is an astrologer, editor, and part-time professor of writing at New York University. She is represented by Ellen Scordato of Stonesong Literary Agency.

Rich Volo is a Hudson-based writer, baker, and community organizer. A Hudson resident since 2006, he is the founder of Hudson’s Pride Parade and the creator of Trixie’s List, a hyper-local cultural blog and event listing site, and Potentially Inappropriate Posts, a personal Substack of potentially inappropriate yet hilarious content.MORE

TOM COLE
is a writer, performer, and artist living in the Lower East Side and Kingston, NY. He is a three-time MacDowell fellow and an Edward Albee Foundation playwriting fellow. His new book, Chimes: A Monologue, is published this September by The Song Cave.

LANA LIN
is a writer and multidisciplinary artist based in New York and Connecticut. She is the author of The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam (Dorothy, 2025), which was a Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus “Best of the Year” for 2025, longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction, and a 2026 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir/Biography.

SHANEKIA MCINTOSH
is an interdisciplinary artist who works with poetry and text in performance, public installation, and signage based works. She is the author of the chapbook Spiral as Ritual (Topos Press) and the full-length poetry collection A New Sense of Luxury (Eureka! Press).

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