Meredith Talusan (she/they) received a Creative Capital Award and MacDowell Fellowship for fiction in 2023; her stories appear or are forthcoming in Guernica, the Kenyon Review, the Boston Review, Epoch, The Rumpus, Grand, Catapult, and BLR. Her debut memoir, Fairest, was a 2020 Lambda Literary Award finalist and named a best book of the year by multiple venues. She has contributed to ten other books and written articles for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and WIRED, among many outlets.