This week we interviewed Arien Reed, a pushcart nominee writer, an award-winning, multi-media artist who paints other trans people, a board member of Trans-E-Motion, and the lead organizer of "Fresno & Online Writers' Workshops" on Eventbrite. Their unpublished collections have been finalists for the Kore Press, Grayson Books, Press 53, and Inlandia poetry prizes, and his works have been published in Oberon, Florida Review, New South, Sonora Review, High Shelf Press, Allegory Ridge, and others.

Arien has submitted to our second anthology "Fierce, Brave, and Loud". We’re proud of that! We asked a series of questions, and the interview was very insightful. Look for our profile and Q&A.