Valentine Johnson is a fiction writer, teacher, and designer from Northeast Florida, a graduate of Florida State University and the University of

North Carolina Wilmington, they are currently a PhD Student in

Creative Writing at the University of North Texas. They love to

write speculative work set in the rural-ish American South, as

well as realistic work that skews toward the absurd. Every-

thing they write addresses the beauty, absurdity, and danger

of being queer in this day and age. They are interested in the

aesthetics of the body and of the dead—sex, ghosts, and

cannibalism—and in juxtaposing the visceral trans body with

the evocative landscape of their home state—syringes and pine

needles, temperate rainforests and new body hair.