• R L • powell (he/they) is a disabled, gender/queer, poz, and neurodivergent writer and academic. His work intersects with poetry, fiction, memoir, and the essay; and presently working on an a lyric manuscript, centred on personal histories of mourning and difficulties of narrating madness. Their work has appeared in such places as IDIOM, StrangeFruit, the HuffPo and elsewhere. He is a PhD candidate and educator at the University of Toronto, and currently resides in the community of Hamilton—located in the traditional territory of Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabeg peoples. They my be found online at: rl-powell.com