Annie Liontas is the generqueer author of the novel Let Me Explain You and the co-editor of A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Gay Magazine, Electric Literature, BOMB, The Believer, Guernica, McSweeneys, and other publications. A graduate of Syracuse Universitys MFA program, she is a professor of writing at George Washington University. Annie has served as a mentor for Pen Citys incarcerated writers and helped secure a Mellon Foundation grant on Disability Justice to bring storytelling to communities in the criminal justice system. She lives in Philadelphia.