Jax Connelly (they/she) is a nonbinary writer whose creative nonfiction explores the intersections of queer identity, unstable bodies, and mental illness. Four of their essays have received notables in the Best American Essays series, and she has been a winner or finalist in prose contests at Prairie Schooner, Nowhere, The Pinch, Fourth Genre, New Letters, and Black Warrior Review, among others. Their work has also appeared in publications like The Georgia Review, River Teeth, The Rumpus, Pleiades, [PANK], and more. This is her first book. Jax lives in Chicago, Illinois.