Liam Strong (they/them) is a queer neurodivergent cottagecore straight edge punk writer who has earned their BA in writing from University of Wisconsin-Superior. They are the author of the chapbook everyone’s left the hometown show (Bottlecap Press, 2023). You can find their poetry and essays in Impossible Archetype and Emerald City, among several others. They are most likely gardening and listening to Bitter Truth somewhere in Northern Michigan.

Liam’s previous pieces: nightmares of my father dying (Issue 48), pareidolia in the form of a lamprey (Issue 74), and love every queer because we’re demons: love every queer because we’re gods (Issue 81)