Arien Alana Reed, MFA, is a Pushcart nominee and an award-winning poet and artist who paints/draws other gender-diverse and/or intersex people. When not covered in paint and charcoal, he can be found volunteering on the board of Trans-E-Motion, a transgender advocacy organization serving California’s Central Valley. His unpublished collections have been finalists for the Kore Press, Grayson Books, Press 53, and Inlandia poetry prizes, and his poetic ravings and artsy doodles have somehow crawled their way into New South, Oberon, Florida Review, Sonora Review, High Shelf Press, J Mane Gallery, Allegory Ridge, and others. His poetic lunacy can be witnessed on Instagram at @arienreedwriting and his squeaky descent into artistic anarchy can be observed at @arienreedart.