Ryan Cook is a Brooklyn based genderqueer poet and performer whose work specializes in queer mythologies, digital cultures, and curses, and has been published or are forthcoming Tupelo Quarterly, Thimble Lit Mag, the Nightboat Blog, No Dear Mag, the Poetry Project’s Footnotes Series, and Hot Pink Mag. They also work as an Events Host for McNally Jackson Bookstore , as well as work as a Program Associate for the Flow Chart Foundation. Alongside Aiden Farell, they co-host the “Unnamed Reading Series” that features artists from all over New York. Currently, they are working on a chapbook about the aesthetics of cringe.