Issue #32 of A Journal of Queer Arts, featuring art by Kim Leutwyler, Zachari Logan, Bobby Lucy, Christopher Sousa, and Truong Tran; and poetry by Derrick Austin, Linda Benninghoff, Steven Cordova, Jim Elledge, Carlton Fisher, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Alyse Knorr, Chip Livingston, M. Mack, Tommy Pico, and Valerie Wetlaufer.
Derrick Austin was born in Homestead, Florida. He received a BA from the University of Tampa and, in 2014, an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Tenderness (BOA Editions, 2021), winner of the 2021 Isabella Gardener Award, and Trouble the Water (BOA Editions, 2016), selected by Mary Szybist for the 2015 A. Poulin Jr. Prize. A Cave Canem fellow, he is the recipient of fellowships from The Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing and Stanford University. He currently lives in Oakland, California.