James Diaz (They/Them) is the author of This Someone I Call Stranger, (Indolent Books, 2018) All Things Beautiful Are Bent (Alien Buddha, 2021) and Object Impermanence (Sweat Drenched Press, 2022) as well as the founding editor of Anti-Heroin Chic. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Thrush Poetry Journal, Corporeal, The Madrigal, The Lumiere Review, Rust + Moth, Selcouth Station, Moss Puppy, Apricity and Wrong Doing Mag. They live in upstate New York.