Arien Alana Reed, MFA, a pushcart nominee, is an award-winning artist, muralist, novelist, and poet. He also volunteers on the board of Trans-E-Motion, a transgender nonprofit serving California’s Central Valley. His unpublished poetry collections have been finalists for the Kore Press, Grayson Books, Press 53, and Inlandia poetry prizes, and his poetic or artistic shenanigans have found 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