Interview with H. Melt

This month I had the opportunity to interview H. Melt about the anthology they've just edited: Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation. H. Melt is a poet, activist, and educator whose work proudly celebrates Chicago's queer and trans communities. Their writing has appeared many places including In These Times, The Offing, and Them, the first trans literary journal in the United States. They are the author of The Plural, The Blurring and editor of Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation. Lambda Literary awarded them the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers and they've been named to Newcity's Lit 50 list, as well as Windy City Times' 30 under 30. H. Melt co-leads Queeriosity at Young Chicago Authors and works at Women & Children First, Chicago's feminist bookstore. Writers, books and artists mentioned in this episode: Subject to Change anthology Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Christopher Soto AKA Loma Beyza Ozer Cameron Awkward-Rich Kay Ulanday Barrett Jay Besemer KOKUMO Troubling the Line anthology H. Melt's book The Plural, The Blurring H. Melt's website Women and Children First Bookstore Jesse Jacobs' work Crawl Space Sound of Waves Breaking: butter melting in a pan Editing and Marketing by: Mitchel Davidovitz WE HAVE SOCIAL MEDIA: check out our new facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WavesBreakPod/ and our new Twitter account at @WavesBreakPod You can, of course, always reach me at [email protected]