Red Emma’s

The second flashes back to the experience of alcoholism and untreated borderline personality disorder, providing context as to the events that led to the first section’s hospitalization.

The third section, written from the present perspective, explores manifestations of queerness and joy as ongoing acts of healing.

nat raum (b. 1996) is a disabled artist, writer, and genderless disaster based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore. They’re the editor-in-chief of fifth wheel press and the author of this book will not save you, fruits of the valley, random access memory, and others. Past and upcoming publishers of their writing include Gone Lawn, Split Lip Magazine, beestung, and BRUISER. Find them online at natraum.com.

Dr. Tonee Mae Moll is a queer & trans writer & educator in Baltimore. Her debut memoir, Out of Step, won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award and the 2017 Non/Fiction Prize. The following year, that book was featured on the American Library Association’s annual list of notable LGBTQ+ books. Her latest poetry collection, You Cannot Save Here, won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. Tonee Mae’s poetry has also received the Adele V. Holden award for creative excellence and the Bill Knott Poetry Prize. She has been a finalist for the Baker Awards, and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of Net.

She holds a PhD in English from Morgan State University and an MFA in creative writing & publishing art from University of Baltimore. Her scholarly work explores feminist pedagogies & epistemologies, poetry, and punk. She is, most notably, a Gemini.