Kay Gabriel is the author of A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat, 2022) and Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (Rosa Press, 2021; Nightboat, 2023). She co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat, 2020). Her work has been translated into French, Spanish and Portuguese. She lives in New York.
Maxi Wallenhorst is a writer living in Berlin. In her academic work, Maxi is currently engaging with the concept of dissociation in trans poetics. In her literary practice, she is working on a research-based romance novella set in the transvestite circles of a half-allegorical 1920s Berlin. Recent essays have appeared in e-flux journal and Texte zur Kunst. Maxi also works as an editor and translator and as a dramaturg in contemporary dance and performance.