MICHAEL M. WEINSTEIN is a transgender, crip poet, scholar, essayist, and photographer. His writing has appeared in venues such as The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Poets.org. A former MFA candidate and Zell Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Michigan, he holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Harvard and formerly served as a Fulbright scholar in Siberia. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Earlham College. He lives in Richmond, IN.