Aimee Herman is a gay, trans writer and educator. They are the author of the novel, Everything Grows, and two full length books of poems, meant to wake up feeling and to go without blinking, in addition to being widely published in journals and anthologies including BOMB, cream city review, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. Aimee plays ukulele in the poetry band, Brand New Queers. They are turned on by public libraries, garage sales and receiving mail. Find them at aimeeherman.com.