Ben Fluet is a queer poet and filmmaker living in New Orleans. He is currently the Graduate Editor at University of New Orleans Press and a reader for Bayou Magazine. In 2022, he hand-bound and self-published his debut chapbook, How We Forgot to Sing. In 2020, Ben directed Meet Me By The Magnolia Tree, a documentary exploring the history of gay men's lives in Richmond, VA, which aired on PBS and featured on Virginia Public Media. His recent writing appears in Otis Nebula and Trampoline Poetry.