Grant Chemidlin is a queer poet and author. His collections include What We Lost in the Swamp (Central Avenue Publishing, 2023) and He Felt Unwell (So He Wrote This), illustrated by Alexandra Lenihan, released in 2020. He is also the author of the chapbook, New in Town (Bottlecap Press, 2022). He was a finalist for the Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award and the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and has had work published in Quarterly West, Iron Horse Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and Saranac Review, among others. He posts his poems on Instagram @grantpoetry.