Jay Kang Romanus is a queer, mixed, Asian-American author of speculative fiction that explores the experience of living this intersectionality in worlds not our own. You can find his other short stories in magazines such as Anathema: Spec from the Margins and forthcoming in Kaleidotrope, as well as multiple anthologies. He is also the editor of Dudes Rock, an anthology of speculative fiction celebrating queer masculinity published in 2025.