Octavia Saenz (she/her) is an editor and cartoonist who creates visual narratives about queer Puerto Rican diaspora. Octavia grew up in Puerto Rico and has a BFA in creative writing and illustration from Ringling College, as well as a Lambda Literary Fellowship. She has worked as a graphic designer, children’s book editor, and independent zine maker. Her short story about a transgender woman redoing a date, “Overnight,” won the Gold Juror’s Prize in Creative Writing for Best of Ringling. She is based in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Read MoreSarah Fonseca is a self-taught writer from the Georgia foothills living in Brooklyn, New York. Fonseca has held writing fellowships with Film at Lincoln Center, Lambda Literary Foundation, and People for the American Way. In addition to publications in Museum of the Moving Image’s Reverse Shot, Kenyon Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, her work has been recognized for its literary merit by Black Warrior Review, Sundress Publications' Best of the Net, and the Association of LGBTQ Journalists.
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