H. Melt is the author of There Are Trans People Here, which won the Heartland Booksellers Award. They edited the anthology Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation. H. Melt attended the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat, the Tin House Workshop, and was an artist-in-residence at the Newberry Library, researching the Chicago Protest Collection. They are currently the Poetry Coordinator at Women & Children First, Chicago’s oldest feminist bookstore.

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