Griffin Rockwell (xe/they) is a queer poet and essayist who often writes about gender, science, pop culture, and unusual connections. Xe is the author of the Otherwise Award-nominated chapbook listen— (Interstellar Flight Press) and the Elgin Award-nominated chapbooks body in motion (perhappened press) and Lexicon of Future Selves (VA Press); their work has also appeared in AGNI, Okay Donkey, Santa Fe Review, Poet Lore, Whale Road Review, HAD, and elsewhere. They received their MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and their MLitt from the University of Dundee. Find xer website and socials at linktr.ee/griffinrockwell.