Ethan Fortuna is a trans writer and visual artist. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University and received his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston as a Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Interdisciplinary Fellow. He was selected as a finalist by Wendy's Subway for the 2023 Carolyn Bush Award book prize, and his work can be found at Black Sun Lit, beestung, TAGVVERK, bæst: a journal of queer forms and affects, and elsewhere.