JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY (he/him) is a Black queer poet, storyteller, first-generation United Statesian, and the author of two collections of poems: original kink (Sibling Rivalry Press), which received a 2021 Housatonic Book Award, and Bound: Poems (Persea Books). He is currently at work on a collection of essays, an excerpt of which received the 2023 First Pages Prize for creative nonfiction. Arriola-Headley lives with his husband in South Florida, on ancestral Tequesta, Miccosukee, and Seminole lands.