About the Poets:

Wo Chan is the author of Togetherness (2022) and performs in drag as The Illustrious Pearl. Wo has received fellowships from MacDowell, New York Foundation of the Arts, Kundiman, The Asian American Writers Workshop, Poets House, and Lambda Literary. Their poems appear in POETRY, WUSSY, Mass Review, No Tokens, The Margins, and elsewhere. Find them at @theillustriouspearl.

Kay Gabriel is a writer and organizer. She’s the author of Perverts (2025), Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (2023), and A Queen in Bucks County (2022). She’s the Editorial Director at the Poetry Project in New York City.