Luke Sutherland is a trans writer, editor, and librarian. He has studied at the Tin House Winter Workshop and the Yale Writers’ Workshop. His chapbook Distance Sequence (forthcoming from Neon Hemlock Press) won the OutWrite 2023 Chapbook Contest in Nonfiction. He was a finalist for the SmokeLong Quarterly Award, the Black Warrior Review Contest, and the Larry Neal Writers’ Award. His work has appeared in smoke and mold, ANMLY, Bright Wall/Dark Room, MQR: Mixtape, and more. Luke also runs a DC-based trans writing group and micropress, Lilac Peril. You can find him online as @lukejsuth.