Queer, transmasc nonbinary writer Tennison S. Black is the author of Survival Strategies (winner of the National Poetry Series, UGA Press 2023) which recently was also awarded the NM-AZ Book Award in Arizona Poetry. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in SWWIM, Hotel Amerika, Booth, Wordgathering, and New Mobility, among others. They are also the editor of the anthology on contemporary disability, A Body You Talk To. Black resides in Washington State and teaches writing at ASU.