20 nonbinary creators you need to keep an eye out for
Submitted by Rae White
Rae White
Rae White is a non-binary poet, write and zinester based in Brisbane, Australia. They are also the editor of a collaborative zine about nonbinary experiences called #EnbyLife.
They have published more than a dozen poems in a variety of magazines in the last two years, in addition to short stories and non-fiction articles. Their manuscript, Milk Teeth, will be published in 2018 after it won the 2017 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize.
They have contributed to five different zines, not including #EnbyLife, which is listed for free, or pay what you can on Gumroad.
They can be found on their website, Etsy, Facebook, Twitter at @wings_humming or Tumblr.
Submitted by Toby Macnutt
Toby MacNutt
Toby MacNutt is a queer disabled interdisciplinary artist, author, and teacher living in Burlington, VT. Their art tends to use a lot of textiles — spinning, knitting, weaving, dyeing, pattern design, sewing — bodypaint and dance. However, they will use “whatever else is needed to bring a given idea to life.”
Toby writes mostly speculative fiction and poetry, though they’re occasionally drawn into writing an essay. Recent publications of Toby’s poetry and prose include Kaleidoscope, Strange Horizons, and Liminality magazines; collection in Transcendent 2 from Lethe Press; and monthly poems released with Patreon support. Their work often explores questions of embodiment and selfhood, with shapeshifters, robots, and creator archetypes, as well as plenty of queer love.
Toby has danced with Murmurations Dance immersive site work “When Women Were Birds”, Lida Winfield, and Heidi Latsky’s “GIMP”, among others; their independent evening work “One, Two” showed locally and internationally (Let’s Dance International Festival, UK). Currently they are developing new performance installation work that will combine dance, visual arts, soundscapes, and poetry — all their genres together for the first time, and then some!
Toby always welcomes questions and potential collaboration ideas — especially for other multiple-marginalized artists/authors/creators.
Find out more about Toby on tobymacnutt.com, Twitter @tylluan, and on Patreon.
Rivers Solomon
According to their bio, Rivers Solomon is “a Trekkie, a wannabe cyborg queen, a trash princex, a communist, a butch, a femme, a feminist, a she-beast, a rootworker, a mother, a daughter, a diabetic, and a refugee of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.”
Their debut novel, An Unkindness of Ghosts, published in October, and is absolutely stunning, from everything I’ve heard about it. Their website pitches it as “science fiction meditation on intergenerational trauma, race, and identity, where a woman traces the connection between the mysterious death of her ship’s sovereign and the disappearance of her mother a quarter-century before.”
You can find more of their writing on their bibliography, or get to know them on Twitter at @cyborgndroid!
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